Greece Lydia (Croesus Or Later) 561 BC AR Half-Stater/Siglos NGC Ancients Ch VF

Category: Greece Lydia (Croesus Or Later) 561 BC AR Half-Stater/Siglos
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No.9 of the 100 Greatest Ancient Coins by Berk. ★STAR designation. Enjoy one of the first coins of our recorded history!  Struck under the King of Lydia, Croesus (561-546 BC). A perfect strike compliment perfect sufaces...! Well-centered and extraordinary eye-appeal.

Time of Kyros to Darios, struck circa 550/39-520 BCE. AR half-stater or siglos (17mm, 5.38 gm). Croeseid standard, from the Sardes mint. The obverse features confronted foreparts of a lion right (on left) and a bull left (on right), each with outstretched foreleg. The reverse features two square punches of unequal size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces.

SNG Kayhan 1024-1026. SNG Keckman 361. Rosen 663-665. SNG von Aulock 2877-2879.  From the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection.

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