LYDIAN KINGDOM. Walwet (before ca. 560 BC). EL third-stater or trite (12mm, 4.72 gm). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 4/5. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes (?) mint. Confronting lion heads; WALWET (Lydian) between / Two incuse square punches of unequal size, side-by-side, one with irregular interior surfaces, the other with checkerboard pattern. Linzalone 1079. Weidauer 94. Le Rider, La naissance de la monnaie, pp. 49-57.

HID09801242017

To the auctioneer's website