★ Ex Prospero Collection ★

ELIS, Olympia. 126th-130th Olympiad. 276-260 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 12.10 g, 10h). ‘Zeus’ mint. Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath / Eagle standing right; F-A across upper field, wreath to left, vertical thunderbolt to right, A-PI across lower field. Seltman, Temple – (dies CV/ζα [unlisted combination]); BCD Olympia 211 (same rev. die); HGC 5, 401; Jameson 1245 (same rev. die). Old cabinet tone, short, light scratch in field on reverse. Good VF.

From the Weise Collection. Ex Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 396, purchased from Spink, 11 January 1990.