Extremely RARE LYDIA Kings Of Croesus 560 - 546 BC Half Starter Lion/Bull VF 5. 27g
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:599838 | Cleaned/Uncleaned: Uncleaned |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: Greece | Certification: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. |
| Date: 560-546 B.C. | Composition: Silver |
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About the coin:Approx.-... 14.87 mm Wide/ 13.40 mm at the Highest Point/ 4.75 mm ThickHalf StaterBMC 41Nice VFApprox.- 5.27 gobv. Foreparts of lion right and bull left, face-to-facerev. Two incuse squares, side by side
By the time Croesus succeeded his father Alyattes as king of Lydia in 561 B.C., electrum coinage already had been used in Asia Minor for decades.Herodotus (1.94.1) states that the Lydians were the first to produce coins of gold and silver, an innovation now confidently attributed to Croesus, seemingly in about 550 B.C. Though the motivation for this advancement is nowhere recorded, it is generally assumed that it was meant to make it easier to determine the intrinsic value of the coins. All new Croesus coins portrayed on their obverse the confronted foreparts of a lion and a bull, a design steeped in the royal and cosmic imagery of the Near East. The reverse was a simple, two part punch on which one segment was larger than the other.
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