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Submitter: Jean-Luc
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LYDIA.
Time of Croesus, 561-546 B.C.
Electrum Stater.
Av.: Forepart of lion to r. facing forepart of bull.
Rv.: Two incuse squares forming a rectangle.
8,33 g.
BoC: 19/1, 1994, p.6.
FAKE – Struck in markedly red gold. The two incuse squares which are always of different size on genuine staters are exactly the same size here.