Lot 3715

Description

Lydia, uncertain king, issued before 561 B.C. and probably c.575 B.C., electrum trite or third stater, (4.66 g) of Lydian-Milesian (Phoenician standard), probably issued at Sardis, obv. head of roaring lion to right, knob with three rays on forehead, rev. double incuse punch, (S.3398, BMC 7 [p.2], Weidauer [Essays to Robinson] Class XVI, Weber 5710 [This Coin], SNG Cop. 449-451, ACNAC Rosen 231, ACNAC Dewing 2421-3, Boston 1768). Good fine with several interesting countermarks and rare a most extraordinary item with so many countermarks coming with a marvellous pedigree.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 94 (lot 4680) and previously from the Montagu Collection, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Auction Sale, March 15-19, 1897 (lot 475 part) and the Sir Hermann Weber Collection (No.5710, p.218, Pl.203), Spink & Son, London, March 27, 2002 (lot 58) and from the Wayne Woolmer and Bruce Canning Collections.