Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Hekte - Alyattes II Sardes
| Issuer | Kings of Lydia |
|---|---|
| Year | 610 BC - 560 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Electrum Hekte (14⁄3) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Forepart of a lion facing left, rendered in archaic Lydian style, with powerful open jaws exposing the teeth, a prominent round eye in high relief, and a richly striated mane depicted by deeply incised parallel lines extending across the field. The bold, naturalistic modelling of the leonine head is characteristic of the earliest Lydian electrum coinage produced at the royal mint of Sardes. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Sardes |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |