Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2235. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 98th Olympiad. 388 BC. AR Stater (12.00 g, 1h). Hera mint. Head of Hera right, wearing ornamented stephanos / Flaming thunderbolt within wreath. Seltman, Temple 283 (dies EM/θβ); BCD Olympia 93 (this coin). VF, toned, small flan flaw on reverse. Rare.

Ex BCD Collection (Leu 90, 10 May 2004), lot 93; Numismatic Fine Arts VI (27 February 1979), lot 224.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.