Watch List notes:

AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 239-229 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.62 g, 12h). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Aitolos, wearing kausia, chiton, and sheathed sword, holding spear upright in right hand, left hand on hilt of sword, seated right on pile of Gallic shields, the uppermost marked A; AITΩΛΩN to left; to right, monogram above ΣE. Tsangari 496a (D8/R36) = Burnett, Enna 156 (this coin); BCD Akarnania 432 (same obv. die); HGC 4, 954; SNG Manchester 888; Ward 467. Attractively toned, small area of scratches under tone on reverse. VF. Very rare.


From the Weise Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 249 (7 February 2007), lot 1362; Kricheldorf XXV (8 May 1972), lot 57; 1966 Enna environs Hoard (IGCH 2232).