KINGS OF LYDIA. Alyattes II Gold El 1/12 Stater⭐Exceptional Rare Greek Coin
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KINGS OF LYDIA. Alyattes Gold Hecte 1/12 StaterThis is The First coin minted in Europe Extremely Rare and the most valuable amongst collectors and museums.
This is The First coin minted in Europe Extremely Rare and the most valuable amongst collectors and museums.
KINGS OF LYDIA. Alyattes II to Kroisos, (Circa 620/10-550/39 BC). Hemihekte or 1/12 S...tater ( Gold Hecte, 7 mm, 1.18 g), Sardes. Head of lion to right, with open jaws and with a sun and rays on its forehead; with a banker’s mark on the lion and with three more on the edge. Rev. Rough incuse square. SNG Kayhan 1015. Weidauer 79-85.
History
Alyattes reigned as king of Lydia from c. 610 BC to 560 BC. He belonged to the house of the Mermnadae, was the son of king Sadyattes and father of king Croesus. Under Alyattes, the kingdom of Lydia entered its period of greatest prosperity and power.For several years he continued the war against the Greek colony of Miletus begun by his father, but was obliged to turn his attention towards the Medes and Babylonians. On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against Cyaxares, king of Media, a solar eclipse took place; hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys River was fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms. Alyattes drove the Cimmerians from Asia Minor, with the help of war dogs. He further subdued the Carians, and took several Ionian cities, including Smyrna and Colophon. Smyrna was sacked and destroyed with its inhabitants forced to move into the countryside. He standardised the weight of coins (1 stater = 168 grains of wheat). The coins were produced using an anvil die technique and stamped with a lion's head, the symbol of the Mermnadae.He was succeeded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was queen consort of Astyages, King of Media.
Tomb Alyattes' tomb still exists on the plateau between Lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of the Lydian capital Sardis—a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones. It was excavated by Spiegelthal in 1854, who found that it covered a large vault of finely cut marble blocks approached by a flat-roofed passage of the same stone from the south. The sarcophagus and its contents had been removed by early plunderers of the tomb. All that was left were some broken alabaster vases, pottery and charcoal. On the summit of the mound were large phalli of stone.
Appearance in The Histories In The Histories, Herodotus recounts how Alyattes continued his father's war against Miletus. According to Herodotus, Alyattes invaded Miletus annually to burn their crops over the course of several years. The troops left the horses and houses untouched so that the Milesians could plant a new crop, which the Lydians would then burn the following year. This continued until the end of the war eleven years later
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