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Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2590. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. 
Sold For $225. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 450-440/30 BC. AR Obol (0.76 g, 3h). Mantinea mint. Zeus Lykaios seated left, holding scepter; eagle flying left from his hand / Head of Kallisto right within incuse square. Williams, Confederate, period IV, - (unlisted dies); cf. BCD Peloponnesos (Mantinea) 1460. VF, toned, light porosity. Unpublished dies.


Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale), purchased from Leu, April 1972.

The style of the dies used for this example is most similar to those of Williams 267.