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Lot 21. Mantineia Hemidrachm, Zeus Lykaios / head of Kallisto, ex BCD
Mantineia Hemidrachm
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eAuction #14, Lot 21. Estimate: CHF 1'600.00
Mantineia, Peloponnesos. AR Hemidrachm (15 mm, 2.96 g), c. 465-460 BC.
Obv. Zeus Lykaios, seated left on low throne with footrest and with swan's head at the top of the backrest, holding long scepter in his right hand and thunderbolt in his left.
Rev. Head of Kallisto to left, her hair in a sakkos and wearing a pearl necklace; all within incuse square.
BMC 27 (same dies); Williams II, 2, 112.
Very rare. Iridescent toning and superb archaic style. Good very fine.
From the BCD collection and ex LHS 96 (2006), 1454 and ex Münzen & Medaillen AG (Basel) 85 (1997), 98.
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