Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2596. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $875. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 450-440/30 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.76 g, 11h). Mantinea mint. Zeus Lykaios seated left, holding scepter; eagle flying left from his hand / Head of Kallisto right within incuse square. Williams, Confederate, period IV, 289 (O193/R189); BCD Peloponnesos (Mantinea) -; Hirsch 1373 (same dies). VF, toned, minor porosity, a few light marks on obverse. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Kricheldorf 45 (15 July 1996), lot 67.