ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 465-460 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15.5mm, 2.95 g, 12h). Tegea mint. Near EF.

Triton XXIX
Lot: 190. Estimated: $ 1 000

Greek, 12h, Silver

Sold For $ 5 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 465-460 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15.5mm, 2.95 g, 12h). Tegea mint. Zeus Lykaios seated left, on throne with swan’s head at the top, holding scepter in left hand and extending right arm from which an eagle flies left / Head of Kallisto left, wearing tainia, single-pendant earring, and necklace; retrograde ARKAD-IK-ON clockwise around from lower left; all within incuse square. Williams, Confederate, Period II.1, 79 (O57/R50); BCD Peloponnesos (Tegea) 1710 (this coin); Traeger, Arkadien 37 (this coin illustrated); HGC 5, 1033 (this coin illustrated); SNG Copenhagen Supp. 274 (same dies); Weber 4288 (same obv. die). Beautiful deep cabinet tone with some iridescence, trace deposits, granular surfaces, edge chip. Near EF.

Ex Peus 401 (3 November 2010), lot 335; BCD Collection (LHS Numismatics 96, 8 May 2006), lot 1710; Numismatica Ars Classica 6 (11 March 1993), lot 148; Schweizerischer Bankverein 29 (28 January 1992), lot 120.


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