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Auction: 325 - Ancient Coins: The Squires Collection and The Mendon Collection
Lot: 113

Kings of Lydia. Kroisos (ca. 564/553-550/539 BC). AV Stater. Light series. Sardes mint. 8.07 gms. Confronted foreparts of a roaring lion right with a tongue of five beads and bull left, rev. Two incuse squares. Traité I 401-3, SNG von Aulock 2875, Boston MFA 2073, SNG Lockett 2983 = Pozzi 2726, BMC 31, Dewing 2431, Gulbenkian 757. Bold details. Lustrous. Superb Extremely Fine and about as struck.

Ex Antiqua, ex Gorny & Mosch Auction 46, Oct. 30, 1989, lot 294

Sold for
$18,000