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Akarnania, Leukas AR Didrachm. Circa 87 BC. Philandros, magistrate. Statue of Aphrodite Aineias standing to right, holding aphlaston in extended right hand, forepart of stag in background, behind, long sceptre surmounted by dove; all within laurel wreath / Prow to right with lion's head, decorated with laurel wreath; ΛEYKAΔIΩ[N] ΦIΛANΔPOΣ in two lines above, [monogram] above. BCD Akarnania 315.4; Callataÿ, Didrachms of Leukas 195-212 (O31/R2); BMC 101-103. 7.92g, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine; areas of flatness; hints of iridescence. Very Fine.
Acquired from Forrestier and Lambert.
Based on the study of de Callataÿ, Didrachms of Leukas, this coin was struck in the summer to autumn of 87 BC as a contribution to Sulla's campaign against Mithradates VI Eupator. De Callataÿ connected it with the encampment of Sulla's troops at Leukas that year and argued that the coinage is a pseudo-civic Greek coinage issued by and for the Romans. This is reflected in the reverse iconography where the galley prow is distinctively Roman, identifiable as such by the wolf head on the prow, above the ram, a decorative element unknown on Greek vessels.
Good Very Fine; areas of flatness; hints of iridescence. Very Fine.
Acquired from Forrestier and Lambert.
Based on the study of de Callataÿ, Didrachms of Leukas, this coin was struck in the summer to autumn of 87 BC as a contribution to Sulla's campaign against Mithradates VI Eupator. De Callataÿ connected it with the encampment of Sulla's troops at Leukas that year and argued that the coinage is a pseudo-civic Greek coinage issued by and for the Romans. This is reflected in the reverse iconography where the galley prow is distinctively Roman, identifiable as such by the wolf head on the prow, above the ram, a decorative element unknown on Greek vessels.