Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 274. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $2130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 93rd Olympiad. 408 BC. AR Stater (11.63 g, 10h). Hera mint. Head of Hera right, wearing stephanos adorned with four palmettes, three tendrils, and H-P-A / Flaming thunderbolt within olive wreath. Seltman, Temple - (dies -/ην [unlisted obv. die]); cf. BCD Olympia 88; SNG Copenhagen 380 (same rev. die). VF, toned, minor die breaks on obverse.

Ex Malter 55 (7 November 1993), lot 185.

Although this obverse die is not listed in Seltman or the Katoché hoard (NC 1951), reverse die ην is only known paired with die BG, which was struck only for the 93rd Olympiad (see Katoché hoard, p. 52).