Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 342. Estimate $4000. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ELIS, Olympia. Circa 416 BC. AR Stater (11.94 gm, 3h). Hera mint.
Struck during the 91st Olympiad. Head of Hera right, wearing stephane decorated with palmettes interspersed with the letters H-P-A / F-A across field, fiery thunderbolt interwoven within wreath of olive. Seltman,
Temple 251 (dies EC/
hh); BCD 68 (same dies); BMC Peloponnesus pg. 65, 62; SNG Copenhagen 381; SNG Fitzwilliam 3707 (same dies). Good VF. ($4000)
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 377.