Triton XVIII, Lot: 503. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AKARNANIA, Leukas. Circa 167-100 BC. AR Stater (21.5mm, 8.23 g, 11h). Leon, magistrate. Statue of Aphrodite Aineias standing right, holding aphlaston in extended right hand; in background, forepart of stag right; to left, eagle standing right and long scepter surmounted by dove standing right; all within laurel wreath / Prow right, decorated with laurel wreath; [Λ]EYKAΔIΩN/ΛEΩN and monogram in two lines above, monogram to right. BCD Akarnania 303–4; SNG Copenhagen 382; BMC 91; Dewing 1463; CH VIII, pl. LXXVIII, 10 (same dies). Good VF, iridescent old cabinet tone, struck with worn obverse die. Excellent metal for issue.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 15 November 1989.