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Lot 31. Olympia Stater, eagle with hare / Nike, rare, with an impressive pedigree

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Rare Olympia Stater with impressive pedigree
Olympia Stater, eagle with hare / Nike, rare, with an impressive pedigree

Time left: 		Bidding closed (Sunday, December 18th, 19:15:30 CET)
Current time: Wednesday, May 15th, 19:16:56 CEST
Price realised: CHF 1'600.00 (1 bid)
Approx. EUR 1'632.40 / USD 1'767.26 / GBP 1'403.22
High bidder: Bidder 1

eAuction #1, Lot 31. Estimate: CHF 2'000.00

Olympia, Elis. AR Stater (23 mm, 11.49 g), c. 440s-430s BC.
Obv. Eagle flying right with wings spread, grasping hare with his talons; two countermarks to left, one to right.
Rev. Nike running left, holding wreath in her outstretched right hand and holding chlamys at her waist in left; in corners, F A Λ E (the E retrograde).
Seltman 92b (this coin); Ward 534 (this coin).

Rare. Nearly very fine, three countermarks, die break on reverse.

From the BCD, J.P. Rosen (not in catalogue), John Ward and Metropolitan Museum of Art collections; ex Sotheby Zürich (1973), 442, ex Myers 11 (1975), 108 and ex Leu 90 (2004), 39.



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