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Hemidrachm Mantineia
| Issuer | Arcadian League |
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| Year | 450 BC - 430 BC |
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| Weight | 2.88 g |
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| Obverse description | Zeus Lykaios seated to the left, holding a scepter in one hand and a thunderbolt in the other. To the left of the deity, an eagle is depicted in flight facing right. The composition reflects the archaic Arcadian artistic tradition, rendered with restrained but expressive engraving typical of mid-fifth century BC Peloponnesian coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Young female head in right profile, identified as the nymph Kallisto, wearing a tainia (fillet) binding her elaborately rendered hair. The portrait is set within a shallow incuse square, a characteristic feature of early Arcadian federal coinage. The facial features are rendered with delicate archaic grace, with fine hair locks falling behind the neck. The ethnic inscription APKA appears distributed around the incuse square in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Α Ρ Κ Α |
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