Didrachm - Aristomenes

Features

Issuer	Leukas (Akarnania)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	167 BC - 100 BC
Value	Didrachm (2)
Currency	Drachma poddasza
Composition	Srebro
Weight	8.19 g
Diameter	22 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 543328
References	Callataÿ Late# 86-92 François de Callataÿ; 2015. “The Late Hellenistic Didrachms of Leukas: Another Case of Greek Coinage for the Roman Army”, FIDES: Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of Richard B. Witschonke, pages 239-278. , BMC Greek# 81 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , Winterthur 1# 1848 Hansjörg Bloesch; 1987. Griechische Münzen in Winterthur 1. Münzkabinett der Stadt Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (2 volumes). , SNG Copenhagen# 379 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , BCD Akarnania# 295 Munzen & Medaillen Basel (publisher); 2007. Münzen & Medaillen Auktion / Volume 23: Sammlung BCD. Antike griechische Münzen, Akarnanien und Aetolien. Munzen & Medaillen Basel, Weil am Rhein, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. , Blumer Akarnaniens# 4 Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer; 1878. Die Münzen Akarnaniens. Druck der k.-k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, Austria. , Postolakas# 673 Achilleus Postolakas; 1868. Κατάλογος των αρχαιων νομισματων των νησιων Κερκνρας, Λευκαδος, Ιθακης, Κεφαλληνιας, Ζακυθον και Κυθηρων συλλεχθεντων μεν υπο Παυλου Λαμπρου = List of ancient coins of the islands of Corfu, Lefkada, Ithaca, Kefallinia, Zakynthos and Kythera, collected by Pavlos Lambros. Athens, Greece.

Obverse

(en) Statue of Aphrodite Aineias standing right, holding aphlaston in extended right hand; in background, stag right; to left, long sceptre surmounted by dove standing right; to right, grain ear; all within laurel wreath.

Reverse

(en) Prow right; club above.

Script: grecki

Lettering:
ΛEYKAΔIΩN
ΑΡΙΣΤΟΜΕΝΗΣ

Mint

Leucas, Acarnania, modern-day Kariotes, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (167 BC - 100 BC)

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Münzen & Medaillen GmbH Auction 23 Lot 295	18 Oct 2007	VF	USD 698.23 (EUR 600.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Colossseum Coin Exchange (Hazlet), MBS 65, October 1992, 37; = BCD Akarnania 295 = Callataÿ Late 87
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