Ex Philipsen and Photiades Pasha Collections

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 2593. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Arkadian League. Circa 450-440/30 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.86 g, 5h). Mantinea mint. Zeus Lykaios seated left, holding scepter; eagle flying left from his hand / Head of Kallisto right, wearing tainia, within incuse square. Williams, Confederate, period IV, 278b (O187/R182 – this coin, illustrated); BCD Peloponnesos (Mantinea) -; SNG Lockett 2513 (same dies). VF, toned, minor porosity, die break on reverse. Very rare.

Ex BCD Collection (not in LHS sale); Leu 42 (12 May 1987), lot 253; Münzen und Medaillen FPL 116 (August 1952), no. 149; Rosenberg 72 (11 July 1932), lot 504; Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XXV, 25 November 1909), lot 1380; Photiades Pacha Collection (Hoffmann, 19 May 1890), lot 1146.