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CNG 100, Lot: 1180. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Games of the I Olympiad, Athens. 1896. AV Medal (26mm, 7.93 g, 12h). Miniature version of the 1896 Olympic Prize Award. Issued by the State of Greece. Undated, but struck circa 1970. Laureate head of Zeus Olympios facing, holding Nike stanting on globe / View of the Akropolis; 9999 HH to left. Cf. Gadoury & Vescovi 1 (for examples in bronze and silver). EF.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A Adams. Ex Künker 247 (13 March 2014), lot 5008; Künker 191 (22 June 2011), lot 5168.