Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 330. Closing Date: Jan 
10, 2005. ARKADIA, Pheneos. Circa 350 BC. AR 
Stater (11.75 gm, 6h). Sold For $20000 

ARKADIA, Pheneos. Circa 350 BC. AR Stater (11.75 
gm, 6h). Wreathed female head right (Kallisto or 
Maia?), wearing looped earring with five pendants 
/ FENEWN, Hermes advancing left, head turned 
right, holding caduceus, the youth Arkas in his 
left arm. Schultz 3 (V2/R2); Jameson 1265 (same 
dies); Boston MFA 1265 (same dies); Boston MFA 
1264 = Warren 955 (same dies); Traité pl. CCXXV, 7 
(same dies). Good VF, light toning around devices, 
slight die shift, minor porosity. Very rare. 
($15,000)

The female head is sometimes described as 
Persephone, modelled on the Syracusan portraits of 
Persephone-Arethusa, but the mythological links to 
Kallisto and Maia in the myth of Arkas suggest the 
identification as one of those two ladies. 
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