From the Bement & Weber Collections

342, Lot: 229. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 86th Olympiad. 436 BC. AR Stater (20.5mm, 11.40 g, 2h). Zeus seated left on rock, eagle alighting from his extended right hand; small c/m: uncertain symbol in circular incuse / Eagle fying left, grasping serpent in beak and with talons. Seltman, Temple 101b (dies BA/βτ) = Weber 4043 = BCD Olympia 44 (this coin); HGC 5, 317 (this coin referenced). Good Fine, old collection toning, surfaces heavily cleaned and smoothed. Extremely rare.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex BCD Collection (Leu 90, 10 May 2004), lot 44; Numismatic Fine Arts VII (6 December 1979), lot 135; G. Empedocles Collection; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VII, 23 June 1924), lot 1247; Sir Hermann Weber Collection 4043, purchased from Spink in 1891.