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Obol Kleitor
| Issuer | Arcadian League |
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| Year | 465 BC - 460 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
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| Obverse description | Zeus Lykaios enthroned to left, his body rendered in archaic style, holding a long scepter in his extended hand from which an eagle takes flight to the left. The figure is depicted in a dignified, hieratic posture characteristic of early Classical Peloponnesian coinage. |
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| Mint | Kleitor |
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Kleitor was one of the older Arcadian poleis, and its brief participation in the early Arcadian League coinage program — before the federation's monetary ambitions collapsed under Spartan pressure in the late 460s BC — produced a thin series of small silver fractions that are rarely encountered today. The League itself was a loose political arrangement more than a monetary union, and member cities retained enough autonomy that local types persisted alongside any federated issues.
The BCD collection reference here is significant: that hoard and auction context represents the most systematic assembly of Peloponnesian coinage ever formed by a private collector, and BCD specimens frequently define the type standard for pieces like this one.