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Auction 25  20 Nov 2022
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Lot 145

Estimate: 25 000 CHF
Price realized: 40 000 CHF
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ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Mantinea. Circa 460-450 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 16 mm, 3.02 g, 9 h). Zeus Lykaios seated to left, holding scepter in his left hand; to left, eagle flying to left. Rev. A-R-K-A Head of Kallisto to left, hair bound with tainia and wearing necklace; all within incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos (Mantinea) 1457 (same obverse die). BMFA 1252 (same dies). Nanteuil 956 = Williams, Confederate, Period III, 237e (O159/R148, this coin). Wonderful old collection toning, perfect centering and superb strike, and of beautiful late Archaic style. Extremely fine.
From a Swiss collection and that of H. de Nanteuil 956 and pl. LVIII, 956, Leu 33, 3 May 1983, 334, and from the collection of Sir Hermann Weber, Naville IV, 17 June 1922, 608, ex Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 29 February 1884, 259.
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