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Coins struck at Sardis

4 catalogued coins and notes attributed to Sardis, with weights, legends, dates and Wikimedia-sourced images across Pre-Achaemenid & Median, Achaemenid Empire.

Catalogued: 4
Eras: 2
Metals: 3
Denominations: 3

Pre-Achaemenid & Median · c. 1000 – 550 BCE

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Lydian Electrum Trite ("Lion Stater")

King Alyattes

c. 610–560 BCE

Earliest coins to reach Persian markets; the prototype Achaemenid coinage would later replace.

Lydian Gold Stater of Croesus

King Croesus (Kroisos)

c. 561–546 BCE

Croesus, last king of Lydia, replaced the older electrum coinage with the world's first true bimetallic system in pure gold and pure silver — a model the Achaemenid daric/siglos would inherit a generation later.