Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 888. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ELIS, Olympia. Circa 400 BC. AR Stater (12.09 g, 7h). Hera mint. Struck during the 95th Olympiad. Head of Hera right, wearing stephane decorated with palmettes interspersed with the letters H-P-A / F A, thunderbolt within olive wreath. Seltman, Temple 275 (dies EK/hn); BCD -; SNG Copenhagen 381 (same dies); BMC 63 (same dies). VF, attractively toned with a well-centered head of Hera wearing a highly detailed stephane. ($2500)