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Auction 125  24-27 Nov 2020
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Lot 4542

Estimate: 8000 AUD
Price realized: 7500 AUD
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PELOPONNESOS, Elis, Olympia, (struck c.432 B.C. for the 87th Olympiad), silver stater (11.75 g), obv. eagle flying to right with its wings spreadabove its body, grasping a hare by the back with its talons and tearing at it with its beak, rev. [F]**AL EON*, thunderbolt with wings below and a palmette with volutes above, (S.-, Seltman 134 [Pl.4 dies BL/**lz*, lists only known example as the British Museum example], Boston 1200 [these dies], SNG Delepierre 2094, BCD Olympia [lot 53, these dies], HGC 5, 338 [R2]). Small countermark on the obverse, broad flan, cabinet tone, very fine and very rare.

Ex Prospero Collection of Greek Coins, The New York Sale Auction XXVII, Wednesday January 4, 2012 (lot 389, realised 3250 US) with lot ticket; previously from Monnaies et Medailles SA, Auction XIX, Basel, 5-6 June, 1959 (lot 435, realised 670 SFr) and purchased by B.A. Seaby Ltd. London, on May 8, 1984.
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