Elis, Olympia, hemidrachm, c. 420 BC (90th Olympiad), eagle with closed wings, holding dead hare and tearing at it, rev., F-A, thunderbolt with wings above and volutes below, 2.89g, die axis 5.00 (Seltman pl. VIII, 15 var. = BMC 30 var.), obverse with countermark of an owl left with facing head, about extremely fine and extremely rare. Provenance: Capt. E.G. Spencer-Churchill collection, Ars Classica XIII, 27 June 1928, lot 798; Hess 253, 8 March 1983, lot 199; BCD collection, Leu Numismatics 90, 10 May 2004, lot 60; Morton & Eden 64, 5 June 2013, lot 57.
(5000-7000 GBP)