111th Olympiad

390, Lot: 116. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. 111th Olympiad. 336 BC. AR Stater (25mm, 11.98 g, 9h). Hera mint. Head of Hera right, wearing ornamented stephanos inscribed F[AΛ]EIΩN / Eagle standing left, head right, wings spread, on rock; all within wreath. Seltman, Temple 344 (dies FG/ιψ); BCD Olympia 159 (same obv. die); HGC 5, 394; Boston MFA 1219 = Warren 932 (same dies); McClean 6655 (same dies); Rhousopoulos 2561 (same dies). VF, toned, a little die wear and ganularity on obverse, die shift on reverse.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.