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Lot 31. Olympia Stater, eagle with hare / Nike, rare, with an impressive pedigree
Rare Olympia Stater with impressive pedigree
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Bidding closed
(Sunday, December 18th, 19:15:30 CET)
Current time: Saturday, November 23rd, 18:03:24 CET
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CHF 1'600.00 (1 bid)
Approx. EUR 1'718.71 / USD 1'790.55 / GBP 1'429.12
Bid history
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CHF 1'600.00
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Bidder 1 *
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2011-12-18, 19:13:05
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* User names of other bidders are replaced by Bidder 1, 2, and so on.
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Bidder 1
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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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