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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Peloponnesos| > GS85071
Arkadia, Arkadian League, c. 430 - 420 B.C.
|Peloponnesos|, |Arkadia,| |Arkadian| |League,| |c.| |430| |-| |420| |B.C.|, Like all the nymphs of Artemis, Kallisto took a vow of chastity, but Zeus transformed himself into the figure of Artemis and seduced her. Months later, while Kallisto was bathing, Artemis saw was pregnant, became enraged, and transformed her into a bear. Kallisto later gave birth to her son Arcas. Sixteen years later Kallisto, still a bear, encountered her son Arcas hunting in the forest. Just as Arcas was about to kill his own mother with his javelin, Zeus averted tragedy by placing mother and son amongst the stars as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, respectively. The Arcadians claimed descent from Zeus and their "bear-mother" Kallisto through her son Arcas.
GS85071. Silver hemidrachm, Williams Arcadians period IV, cf. BCD Peloponnesos 1465, SNG Cop 171, HGC 5 917 (R3), aVF, fine style, dark toning, light etching/porosity, Mantineia (Tripoli, Arcadia, Greece) mint, weight 2.712g, maximum diameter 14.8mm, die axis 270o, c. 430 - 420 B.C.; obverse Zeus Lykaios seated left on a throne without back, nude to the waist, himation around hips and legs, eagle flying left over his extended right hand, long scepter vertical behind in his left hand; reverse head of nymph Kallisto left, hair rolled, A-P-K-A around, all within incuse square; this style head of Kallisto is extremely rare, this reverse die is unpublished in the references examined; extremely rare; SOLD










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