Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 196. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 108th Olympiad. 348 BC. AR Stater (12.11 g, 1h). Laureate head of Zeus right / F-A across field, eagle standing right on Ionic capital; thunderbolt to right. Seltman, Temple 196-198 var. (dies CM/-; unlisted rev. die); BCD 136 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; Pozzi 1865 (same obv. die). Near EF, toned, small nick in field on obverse. Of fine style on good metal. ($5000)

Ex BCD Collection (Leu 90, 10 May 2004), lot 136; Johns Hopkins University Collection (Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984), lot 226; John Work Garrett Collection (not in Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts sale; purchased from C.J. Seltman, 8 November 1926); Naville X (15 June 1925), lot 595.