Ex BCD and Weber Collections

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 273. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 87th-90th Olympiad. 432-420 BC. AR Stater (11.45 g, 5h). Eagle standing right on laurel branch, head left, with wings spread / Thunderbolt with wings below and volutes above; all within incuse circle. Seltman, Temple 136f (dies BM/γν) = Weber 4034 (this coin); BCD Olympia 54 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, toned, some roughness and granularity to surfaces.

Ex BCD Collection (Leu 90, 10 May 2004), lot 328.2; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXVIII/11 (November 1980), no. 9089; Kricheldorf XVII (8 May 1967), lot 105; Sir Hermann Weber Collection 4034; Naville IV (17 June 1922), lot 589.