Watch List notes:

AKARNANIA, Leukas. temp. Sulla. Circa 87 BC. AR Didrachm (21.5mm, 8.23 g, 11h). Leon, magistrate. Statue of Aphrodite Aineias standing right, holding aphlaston; in background, stag standing 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. Callataÿ, Late – (O23/R11 [unlisted die combination]); Imhoof-Blumer, Akarnaniens –; BCD Akarnania 303–4; HGC 4, 857. Good VF, iridescent old cabinet tone, struck with worn obverse die. Excellent metal for issue.


From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Dr. V.J.A. Flynn Collection; Collection of a Southern Pathologist (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 503, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 15 November 1989.