CNG 97, Lot: 145. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 87th-90th Olympiad. 432-420 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 11.52 g, 9h). Eagle standing right, wings displayed, holding serpent in beak; Δ-A across lower field; c/m: uncertain design in circular incuse / Winged thunderbolt with volutes within circular incuse. Seltman, Temple 137 (dies BN/γη); cf. BCD Olympia 58/54 (for obv./rev. dies); HGC 5, 341; SNG Copenhagen 365 (same dies); Pozzi 1831 (same dies). VF, toned, well centered, irregular flan. Very rare issue, missing from the BCD collection.

From the Lexington Collection.