294, Lot: 158. Estimate $200. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 105th Olympiad. 360 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.74 g, 1h). Head of the nymph Olympia right / Eagle standing left, head right, within wreath. Seltman, Temple, pl. XII, 11 = BMC 77 = Traité III 1121, pl. CCXXXIII, 3 (same dies); BCD Olympia 124 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; A. Cahn 68, lot 1387 (same dies); HGC 5, 438. Good Fine, toned, die break on reverse. Extremely rare, one of four known.

Ex Robert and Julius Diez Collection (Lanz 151, 30 June 2011), lot 128; Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part III, J. Hirsch XXV, 29 November 1909), lot 1271.