AITOLIA. Aitolian League. Circa 205-150 B.C. AR triobol. 2.78 gm. 15 mm. Head of Aetolia right, wearing kausia / Calydonian boar right; spearhead to right in exergue. BCD Akarnania 463. Good Very Fine; rich old toning; scattered die rust; beautiful style, high relief, a charming coin.

The Calydonian Boar is one of the fabled monsters in Greek mythology. Pursued by many of the heroes of the Olympian age, it met its end in the Calydonian Boar Hunt, an event frequently portrayed in classical art and enmeshed in the web of myth, one of the nodes in which much Greek myth comes together.