Two Rare Mantineia Issues

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 593. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $710. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Mantineia. Circa 495-480 BC. AR Triobol (2.54 g, 6h). Bear walking left / M-A divided by transverse dolphin swimming to upper left. BCD Peloponnesos 1448 var. (dolphin to lower right); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. VF, toned, compact flan. Extremely rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Classical Numismatic Auctions IV (21 September 1988), lot 86.