Elis, Olympia, stater, c. 300-276 BC, laureate head of Zeus right, rev., F-A, eagle standing right flanked by thunderbolt and serpent with protruding tongue; in lower field H, 12.19g, die axis 12.00 (Seltman 209b, this coin; BCD Peloponnese 652; SNG Copenhagen 390; BMC 133), obverse test cut, good very fine to extremely fine, very rare. Provenance: Paul Mathey collection, Schulman, 8 June 1937, lot 147; Morton & Eden 64, 5 June 2013, lot 58.
(3500-4500 GBP)