Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 340. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. Circa 460s-450s BC. AR Stater (11.74 gm, 7h). Eagle flying left, wings spread above, clutching dead hare in its talons / F A, thunderbolt with wings and volutes. Seltman, Temple 32 (dies W/ad) = Weber 4005 (this coin); BCD 20 (same dies); BMC Peloponnesus -; SNG Copenhagen -; McClean 6599 (same dies and counterstamp); SNG Delepierre 2033-2034 (same dies); SNG Berry 810 (same dies). VF, toned, small banker's mark on obverse, a few light scratches under tone. Well centered and struck. ($4000)

Ex Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1284; Clarence S. Bement Collection (Naville VII, 23-24 June 1924), lot 1244; Sir Herman Weber Collection, 4005; Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XXV, Munich, 29 November 1909), lot 253; W. Talbot Ready Collection.