KINGS of LYDIA. temp. Alyattes – Kroisos. Circa 620/10-550/39 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7mm, 1.17 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, "sun" with no rays on forehead / Incuse square. Weidauer Group XVI, 90; Kurth G29–30; SNG Ashmolean 757. Toned. Good VF.
From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Charles E. Weber Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 63, 21 May 2003), lot 538.