Illustrated in Seltman

CNG 100, Lot: 1397. Estimate $10000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 126th-130th Olympiad. 276-260 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 11.98 g, 5h). Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / Eagle standing right on rock; F-A flanking head, thunderbolt to left; to right, wreath above API. Seltman, Temple 224a (dies CX/ζζ – this coin, rev. illustrated on pl. VII); BCD Olympia –; BCD Peloponnesos 653 var. (position of controls, same obv. die); HGC 5, 401; Frank Sherman Benson Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3 February 1909), lot 577 (same obv. die). Near EF, old cabinet toning, die breaks on reverse. Very rare.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, April 1987.