288, Lot: 176. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 460-450 BC. AR Triobol or Hemidrachm (2.96 g, 8h). Tegea mint. Zeus Lykaios seated right, holding scepter; [eagle flying right from his hand] / Head of Kallisto, wearing tainia, facing slightly left within incuse square. Williams, Confederate, period III, 220 (O148/R139); BCD Peloponnesos –; BCD Peloponnesos II 2577 (this coin); HGC 5, 1038 (this coin illustrated). Near VF, toned, die breaks on reverse, a few marks in fields. The last of the facing-head dies in the series. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 81, 20 May 2009), lot 2577; Purchased from Christian Blom, October 1977.