From the Bement, Weber, Philipsen, & Ready Collections

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 258. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 78th-82nd Olympiad. 468-452 BC. AR Stater (11.74 g, 7h). Eagle flying left, wings spread above, clutching dead hare in its talons; c/m: incuse cross with raised pellet in center / Thunderbolt with wings and volutes; F-A flanking. Seltman, Temple 32c (dies W/αδ) = Weber 4005 (this coin); BCD Olympia 20 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; McClean 6599 (same dies and c/m); SNG Delepierre 2033-4 (same dies); SNG Berry 810 (same dies). VF, toned, small banker's mark on obverse, a few light scratches under tone. Well centered and struck.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection. Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 340; Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1284; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VII, 23 June 1924), lot 1244; Sir Herman Weber Collection, 4005; Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XXV, 29 November 1909), lot 253; W. Talbot Ready Collection.