KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Myshemihekte – Twenty-fourth Stater (8mm, 0.80 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, "sun" with no rays on forehead / Incuse square. Weidauer Group XVI, –; Artemision –; Kurth –; Traité I –; Sunrise 4 corr. (metal; this coin). Light mark on obverse. Near EF. Extremely rare denomination, the only published example.
From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Sunrise Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 23; Gorny & Mosch 180 (12 October 2009), lot 200.