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Auction 12  22 May 2016
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Lot 56

Estimate: 2000 CHF
Price realized: 1600 CHF
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GREEK COINS
AITOLIA

Aitolian League. Circa 250-225 BC. Drachm (Silver, 18mm, 5.51 g 2). Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet, pendant earring and pearl necklace, her hair falling down in two straight ringlets. Rev. ΑΙΤΩΛΩΝ Boar at bay to left; below, uncertain letter or monogram; in exergue, spear head to left. BCD Akarnania -. Tsangari -. Unpublished and unknown. Corroded and harshly cleaned, otherwise, nearly very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.
This coin is both startling and unexpected; the idea that an unknown issue of the Aitolian League should appear soon after the publication of Tsangari's corpus is an extraordinary coincidence! The obverse is immediately reminiscent of the League's own gold staters; but the style clearly is most similar to the Athena heads found on some of Alexander's, those minted during his life-time in Macedon. The boar at bay is like a few of the earliest League triobols (as BCD 462 for example). The weight seems to be on the Korkyrian standard as one would expect.

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