Elis, Olympia. Stater; Elis, Olympia; 270s-260s BC, Stater, 11.96g. Seltman-232, obv. die DC, but new rev. die. Not in BCD Olympia or BCD Peloponnesos. Obv: Laureate head of Zeus r. Rx: Eagle standing r., wings closed, between thunderbolt to l. and coiled serpent to r. Ex Evans Sale, Lucerne 1934 according to the coin's old French ticket, but not in the printed catalogue of that sale, Ars Classica XVII. Apparently from an unpublished reverse die.The head of Zeus on this coin is one of the finest dies of Zeus, especially of this late period. While the obverse die is in Seltmann, the reverse die is not. EF
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