AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 220-205 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 10.59 g, 2h). Korkyrean standard. Good VF.

CNG Feature Auction 132
Lot: 274. Estimated: $ 1 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 1 800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 220-205 BC. AR Stater (24mm, 10.59 g, 2h). Korkyrean standard. Laureate head of Apollo right; ΦI below / Aitolos standing left, kausia hung around neck and sword slung at waist, holding spear, foot set on rock, leaning on raised knee. Tsangari 643 (D11/R17); BCD Akarnania 438 (this coin); HGC 4, 942. Toned. Good VF.

From the Thomas Palmer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group inventory 803356 (June 2009); BCD Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH, 18 October 2007), lot 438.

Little history is recorded for the region of Aitolia in west-central Greece until the fourth century BC, when its cities banded together to the form the Aitolian League for mutual defense against marauding Gauls and the powerful Macedonian Kingdom. The league created its own federal currency, probably minted at its capital of Thermika. Obverse types were based on contemporary Hellenistic coinage, while reverses featured the hero Aitolos, son of Endymion, a legendary figure in Greek mythology. The handsome laureate male head on the obverse of these issues is usually described as Apollo, but could also be Aitolos. It has also been proposed that it is a portrait of a contemporary Hellenistic ruler, although which one is difficult to establish. Antigonos Gonatas and his son Demetrios II Aitolicos have been proposed, but the Aitoleans were usually warring with Macedon and it is unlikely they would so honor one of its kings. Antiochos III of Syria, who allied with the Aitoleans against the Romans in circa 190 BC, has also been proposed, but the alliance seems to post-date this coinage.

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