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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 | Head of the nymph Kallisto facing right, her hair bound with a tainia, depicted in fine three-quarter or profile relief within a shallow incuse square. The portraiture reflects the accomplished die-cutting of the Mantineian mint, with delicate facial features typical of the early Classical period. |
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| Mintage | ND (450 BC - 430 BC) |
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The Arcadian League's federal coinage, produced at Mantineia, was among the earliest attempts in the Greek world to issue coins under a shared federal authority rather than a single city-state — a political arrangement that made this mint unusual for its time. Mantineia's role as a minting center ended abruptly in 385 BC when the Spartans forcibly dissolved the city, scattering its population into villages in a process the Greeks called synoikismos in reverse. The coins predate that destruction by decades.