LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-546 BC). EL 1/12 stater or hemihecte (6mm, 1.16 gm). NGC VF 4/5 - 3/5, countermark. Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion right, radiate nodule on forehead / Incuse square. Weidauer 90. Traité I 47. SNG Kayhan 1015. Ex Gemini Auction 98 (13 January 2013), lot 930 Interesting note: in a sign of how impressively standardized the early Lydian coinage was, with half of the EL 1/12 staters in Heritage Auctions' archive falling within a variance of 0.01 gm of 1.17 gm, as is the case with this example.

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