Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 263. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 134th-143rd Olympiad. Circa 244-208 BC. AR Drachm (4.64 g, 4h). Eagle flying right, tearing at hare held in its talons / Vertical thunderbolt with volutes above, wings below; F-A flanking. Elis Hoard group III; BCD Olympia 243 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 426; BMC 135; SNG Manchester 1101; Pozzi 4146; Dewing 1901. Good VF, toned. Well centered strike.

Ex BCD Collection (Leu 90, 10 May 2004), lot 243.