Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2216. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 87th Olympiad. 432 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.69 g, 6h). Eagle, with wings displayed above, flying left, holding hare by its back and tearing at it with his beak / Thunderbolt, with wings above and volutes below, within circular incuse. BCD Olympia -; BCD Peloponnesos -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Traité -; SNG Delepierre -; Pozzi -; Weber -; McClean -. Fine, toned, light porosity. This type unpublished in the standard references.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS or Leu sales); Spink 90 (16 March 1992), lot 761 (part of).

The obverse type, combined with the form of the thunderbolt, with its broad, splayed wings, and the A on the reverse, is most similar to the stater of BCD 50.