★ BCD Peloponnesos & HGC plate coin! ★

ARKADIA. Mantineia. Circa 490-470 BC. Obol (Silver, 9 mm, 0.99 g, 3 h). Head of the bear Kallisto to right. Rev. Acorn within incuse square. BCD Peloponnesos 1450.1 = HGC 5, 898 ( this coin ). BMC 5 var. SNG Copenhagen 243. Traité II, 1, 1242. Extremely rare, probably the only example ever to appear on the market. This shows us the head of Kallisto after she was transformed into a bear by Hera. Good very fine.

From the Dr. Paul Peter Urone Collection, acquired from J. Jencek in 2011 and from the BCD Collection, LHS 96, 8 May 2006, 1450.1.