Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 282. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 120th-126th Olympiad. 300-276 BC. AR Stater (12.16 g, 7h). Laureate head of Zeus right / Eagle standing right on coiled snake to right; thunderbolt to left. Seltman, Temple 207-12 (dies CT/- [unlisted rev. die]); BCD Olympia 161; SNG Copenhagen 390 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, light obverse die rust. The only known example struck from this reverse die.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 652; 1975 Atalanti/North of Elis Hoard (CH II, 75).