Sale: Nomos 1, Lot: 84. Estimate CHF2000.  Closing Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2009.  Sold For CHF1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 460-450 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 2.72 g 7), Mantinea. Zeus Lykaios seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and with eagle flying left above his right Rev. ARKA Head of Kallisto to left, wearing a taenia, a simple necklace with a pendant and with her hair bound in a queue at the back; all within incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos 1457/8 var. Williams III, 2, 237. Very rare. Toned and with a beautiful head of Kallisto. Crystallized surfaces and with a minor flaw on the reverse, otherwise, good very fine.

From the BCD collection, ex Gorny & Mosch 129, 8 March 2004, 127.