Ex Charles Gillet Collection

CNG 106, Lot: 280. Estimate $10000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 83rd-85th Olympiad. 448-440 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 12.18 g, 10h). Eagle, wings spread, in flight right, holding dead hare in its talons and tearing at it / Vertical thunderbolt with volutes above and wings below; A (F retrograde) flanking; all within incuse circle. Seltman, Temple 59 var. (dies AK/– [unlisted rev. die]); BCD Olympia 31 var. (normal ethnic; same obv. die); HGC 5, 302 var. (same; same obv. die as illustration); SNG Delepierre 2056 (same rev. die); Gillet 967 (this coin). Good VF, old collection tone, minor edge split.

From the RAJ Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 724938 (February 2001); K. Davis FPL 33 (January 2001), no. 51; Charles Gillet Collection, 967.