ALYATTES OR WALWET ELECTRUM 1/12 STATER – WELL CENTERED SPECIMEN WITH SPECTACULAR COUNTERMARKS – CHOICE FINE NGC GRADED GREEK LYDIA COIN (Inv. 20333)

$1,500.00

20333. LYDIA. ALYATTES OR WALWET, ca. 610–546 BC.
Electrum 1/12 Stater, 1.14 g, 7 mm. Uninscribed issue of Sardes.
Obv. Head of roaring lion right, “sun disk” on forehead. Rev. Incuse punch with two sections.
Linzalone LN1091; Weidauer 90.
NGC graded CHOICE FINE, Strike 5/5, Surface 2/5, “countermarks.”

A spectacular example with multiple countermarks applied to the lion’s cheek and edge of the coin. The principal countermark appears to be a simplified triskeles – it appears on the obverse as well as the edge of the coin. Additional countermarks have different forms, including one that is reminiscent of an Egyptian solar disk framed by cobras.