Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2220. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $485. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 91st-94th Olympiad. 416-404 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.69 g, 11h). Head of eagle left; leaf below; c/m to right of geometric pattern / Thunderbolt, with wings above and volutes below, in wreath; all within circular incuse. BCD Olympia 79 (same dies). Near VF, toned. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS or Leu sales); Sotheby’s (9 March 1989), lot 535.