Watch List notes:

AITOLIA, Aitolian League. Circa 220-205 BC. AR Stater (25mm, 10.60 g, 5h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath; ΦI below / Aitolos, wearing kausia, chiton, and sheathed sword, holding spear upright in right hand, standing left, right foot propped on rock to left; AITΩΛΩN to right. Tsangari 643 (D11/R17); BCD Akarnania 438 (same dies); HGC 4, 942; SNG Copenhagen 4; BMC 9 (same rev. die). Toned, traces of old lacquer on obverse, slight doubling and flatness of strike on reverse. Good VF. Very rare without control marks on reverse, only 17 noted by Tsangari, 5 of which are in museum collections.


From the Weise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 64 (24 September 2003), lot 173.