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Obol Mantineia
| Issuer | Arcadian League |
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| Year | 450 BC - 430 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Female head of Kallisto facing right, depicted with carefully rendered hair and delicate facial features, set within a shallow incuse square that frames the design; the flan is irregular and slightly broader than the incuse square, consistent with hammered archaic Greek fabric. |
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| Mint | Mantineia |
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The Arcadian League's coinage was a deliberate political instrument, struck to project a unified federal identity across a region of historically fractious city-states. Mantineia's participation is notable given the city's complicated relationship with Spartan hegemony — Mantineia was forced to dismantle its urban center and revert to scattered villages by Sparta around 385 BC, an act of political humiliation that effectively ended its autonomous civic life for a generation.
The BCD reference here is a cross-reference rather than a direct match, which places this among the less thoroughly documented fractions of the series.