From the BCD, Comtesse de Béhague, and Rhousopoulos Collections

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 165. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARKADIA, Heraia. Circa 470 BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.65 g, 4h). Head of Hera right, wearing stephane and earring, her hair in a queue in the back / ERA in oblong compartment between two lines with a row of beads above and below; all within incuse square. Williams, Archaic, Period V, 14d (O11/R13) = BCD Peloponnesos 1355 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 10 = Traité I 1221 (same dies). Near EF, attractive old cabinet toning, a hint of die wear on obverse. Extremely rare.

Ex BCD Collection (LHS 96, 8 May 2006), lot 1355; Comtesse de Béhague Collection (Vinchon, 14 April 1984), lot 134; A. Rhousopoulos Collection (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 2805.