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18 May 2010
Widder Hotel, Zürich
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Estimate: 4500 CHF
Hammer Price:  Unsold
Lot 96

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 460-450 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 2.93 g 10), Mantinea. Zeus Lykaios, seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and with eagle flying left from his right. Rev. ARKA Head of the nymph Kallisto to left, wearing a simple necklace and with her hair bound with a taenia; all with incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos (Mantinea) 1458 (this coin). Williams III, 2, 240. Nicely toned and with a superb early Classical head of Kallisto. About extremely fine.


From the BCD Collection, LHS 96, 8 May 2006, 1458 and from that of the Johns Hopkins University and J. W. Garrett, Bank Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984, 227.

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