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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Featured Collections| > |CEB Collection| > SH96818
Lydian Kingdom, Kroisos, c. 561 - 546 B.C.
|CEB| |Collection|, |Lydian| |Kingdom,| |Kroisos,| |c.| |561| |-| |546| |B.C.|, The Lydian King Croesus minted the first silver and gold coins. He was famous for his extraordinary wealth, but after his defeat by Cyrus in 546 B.C. Lydia became a Persian satrapy. The Persian conquerors of Lydia continued to strike the same Croesus' silver half siglos and gold stater types. This coin is an early example issued under Croesus. We can tell it is an early example because the lion and the bull were struck separately, with one punch at a time. Later examples appear to have been struck with single punch only made to look like two separate punches.
SH96818. Silver siglos (half-stater), BMC Lydia p. 7, 45, pl. 1, 18; SNG Cop 456; SNG Kayhan 1024; SNG Ashmolean 762; SNGvA 2877; Rosen 663; SGCV II 3420, gF, scratches, polished, probably Sardes (Sart, Turkey) mint, weight 5.209g, maximum diameter 15.2mm, c. 561 - 546 B.C.; obverse on the left, forepart of a roaring lion right, confronting, on the right, the forepart of a bull left, pellet above lion's head; reverse two incuse square punches, of unequal size, side by side; from the CEB Collection; ex Numismatic Fine Arts mail bid sale (18 Dec 1987), lot 362; SOLD



  






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