110, Lot: 44. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. Circa 421-365 BC. AR Obol (10mm, 0.83 gm). Hera mint. Struck during the 92st Olympiad, 412 BC. Head of Hera right, wearing stephanos decorated with two palmetted and the letters H P / Flaming thunderbolt; F A flanking; all within olive wreath. Seltman pl. xii, 4 = BMC Peloponnesus 70 (same dies); BCD 75 (this coin); SNG Delepierre 2141 (same dies). VF, toned. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (Leu Numismatics 90, 10 may 2004), lot 75.