Savoca Coins
Online Auction 38 | Silver 2 Nov 2019
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Akarnania. Leukas. ΛΕΩΝ (Leon), magistrate circa 167-50 BC.
Stater-Didrachm AR
22 mm., 8,24 g.
Statue of Aphrodite Aineias (or Artemis) right, holding aphlaston with right hand, behind, scepter surmounted by dove and eagle on thunderbolt, beside her, stag right, all within laurel wreath / ΛEYKAΔIΩN ΛΕΩΝ, prow of galley decorated with laurel branch right, monogram beside magistrate's name, monogram to right.
nearly very fine
Cf. Postolakas Achilleus, Catalog der alten Münzen (Ποστόλακας Αχιλλεύς, Κατάλογος), 66, 680; cf. BMC Thessaly, p.180, 91.
Stater-Didrachm AR
22 mm., 8,24 g.
Statue of Aphrodite Aineias (or Artemis) right, holding aphlaston with right hand, behind, scepter surmounted by dove and eagle on thunderbolt, beside her, stag right, all within laurel wreath / ΛEYKAΔIΩN ΛΕΩΝ, prow of galley decorated with laurel branch right, monogram beside magistrate's name, monogram to right.
nearly very fine
Cf. Postolakas Achilleus, Catalog der alten Münzen (Ποστόλακας Αχιλλεύς, Κατάλογος), 66, 680; cf. BMC Thessaly, p.180, 91.