Lot 4235

Description

Peloponnesos, Elis, (Olympia), silver stater, (c.510-471 B.C. Seltman chronology) or (468-452 B.C. BCD chronology), (11.13 g), obv. eagle flying left, wings outstretched, carrying a captured hare in its beak and talons; six countermarks and hallmarks, rev: F - A (retrograde), winged thunderbolt (bundle of lightning) in a recessed round area, (S.2859, Seltman 24, p.10, [obv. R / rev. **F*], Group A Series III, only other example published from the same dies is in the Athens Collection). Toned, fine/almost very fine, extremely rare.

Ex Lanz Numismatik, Auction Sale 112, November 25, 2002 (lot 212 illustrated).
The A in the reverse field has an angled horizontal stroke, the F is reversed and both are juxtapositioned to the normal position F A. Almost all known examples of this type of stater from Olympia comes with various countermarks as does this example.