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Auction XXI  24-25 Mar 2021
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Lot 58

Estimate: 2500 GBP
Price realized: 5000 GBP
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Elis, Olympia AR Stater. 78th-82nd Olympiads, circa 460 BC. Eagle flying to left, with snake in its beak / Upright thunderbolt, with wings above and volutes below, A-[F] across fields; all within shallow circular incuse. Seltman Group A (unlisted dies); BCD Olympia -, cf. 6; SNG Delepierre -, cf. 2021; McClean -, cf. 6598, pl. 225, 1; HGC 5, 288. 11.81g, 20mm, 10h.

Good Very Fine; light smoothing in rev. field, pleasant cabinet tone. Very Rare.

From the Vaskola Collection, exhibited at the Numismatic Museum of Athens in 2019;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Auction 46, 2 April 2008, lot 867;
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 53, 15 March 2000, lot 405.
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