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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 1982696, member: 42034&quot;]Thanks for your comments and sorry for my delay in posting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Lydian trite is really nice &amp; historically very important.&nbsp; Like many, I&#039;ve been looking at pieces at auction since the late 80&#039;s or early 90&#039;s and have rarely seen one that nice.&nbsp; Recently interest in these has picked up a lot.&nbsp; There seems to be conflicting claims between these and those that claim that the &quot;striated staters&quot; are the first true coins.&nbsp; Thru separate readings I&#039;ve come across a statement (Herodotus I think) made in the 5th century BC, that the Lydians struck the first coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, there is a dealer who recently wrote a book on the striated staters and who says that those are the first true coins.&nbsp; He also put together a private collection of several (out of a total estimated population of 12 ???) striated full staters.&nbsp; One sold on Heritage about 3 years ago and brought 95K.&nbsp; He claims that those are the first coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a note of pedantic commerciality, there is a Lydian trite coming up for auction.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never been able to buy a coin from this auction firm tho.&nbsp; The trite appearing is of later style and doesn&#039;t have the name of Alyattes (fortunately for me: bidders go crazy over those pieces).&nbsp; However, it&#039;s described as &quot;probably struck under Alyattes&quot; and is in superb condition.&nbsp; What do you think?&nbsp; Should I try to get it?&nbsp; How unusual is this piece &amp; are there any guidelines on what to pay?&nbsp; The auction firm is noted for moon prices so I shouldn&#039;t get too attached to this piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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