294, Lot: 155. Estimate $150. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 87th-90th Olympiad. 432-420 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.68 g, 5h). Eagle, wings spread, standing right, head left, on base / Thunderbolt with wings and volutes. Seltman, Temple, pl. VIII, 14 = BMC 232; BCD Olympia 56; SNG Copenhagen 366; SNG Delepierre 2102–3; McClean 6617 (all from the same dies); HGC 5, 427. Fine, toned, irregular flan, minor area of flat strike. Extremely rare.

Ex Robert and Julius Diez Collection (Lanz 151, 30 June 2011), lot 122; Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1258 (part of).