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From the Kunstfreund Collection

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 161. Estimate $7500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. 
Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 465-460 BC. AR Hemidrachm (3.02 g, 9h). Tegea mint. Zeus Lykaios seated left, on throne with swan’s head at the top, holding scepter in his left hand, extending his right arm from which an eagle flies left / Head of Kallisto left, wearing tainia, single-pendant earring, and necklace; retrograde [A]RKADIKON around; all within incuse square. Williams, Confederate, period II.1, 79 (O57/R50); BCD Peloponnesos (Tegea) 1710 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 274 (same dies); Weber 4288 (same obv. die). Near EF, lightly toned. Superb style on a flan of excellent metal.


Ex Charles Gillet Collection (Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 28 May 1974 [Kunstfreund]), lot 156.