| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3113 | Auction date: 8 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 30051 Price realized: 4,400 USD (Approx. 4,011 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Ancients LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-546 BC). EL third-stater or trite (13mm, 4.77 gm). NGC AU 5/5 - 3/5, marks. Lydo-Milesian standard, Sardes, uninscribed issues. Head of lion right, mouth open, mane bristling, radiate sun above eye / Two square punches of different size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces. Linzalone 1090. Weidauer 86-89. Rosen 655-656. SNG von Aulock 2868. SNG Kayhan 1013. Firmly struck from excellent style, fresh dies. The lion particularly fierce. From the Wetmore Collection of Gold and Electrum. Ex Gemini VII (9 January 2011), lot 537. Lydia was the first kingdom of the ancient world to make widespread use of the newly invented medium of coinage. Previously, city-states along the Anatolian coast had experimented with pre-weighing nuggets of electrum and marking them with various abstract designs. Alyattes, who founded the Lydian Kingdom circa 619 BC, standardized the striking of coins on a wide scale and used as an obverse design an image of the sun (shown as a "radiate globule") rising over a lion's head, the symbol of his family, the Mermnadae. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-lydian-kingdom-alyattes-or-walwet-ca-610-546-bc-el-third-stater-or-trite-13mm-477-gm-ngc-au-5-5-/a/3113-30051.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3113-01082024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Estimate: 5000-7000 USD |  |
