KINGS of LYDIA. Alyattes. Circa 620/10-564/53 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.15 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of roaring lion left; traces of WALWEL (in retrograde Lydian) downward to left / Incuse square. Weidauer Group XVII, 113; Kurth G20; cf. SNG Ashmolean 756 (hekte). Struck with worn obverse die. VF.
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