Didrachm - Agemon

Features

Issuer	Leukas (Akarnania)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	167 BC - 100 BC
Value	Didrachm (2)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	8.12 g
Diameter	23 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 543516
References	Callataÿ Late# 186-192 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# 78 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , SNG Copenhagen# 377 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , SNG Lewis 1# 634 Samuel Savage Lewis, Martin Jessop Price; 1972. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain / Volume 6.1. The Lewis Collection in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: The Greek and Hellenistic Coins (with Britain and Parthia). Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Stockholm 3# 1358 Ulla Westermark; 1991. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Sweden 2 / Part 3. Attica - Lesbos: The Collection of the Royal Coin Cabinet National Museum of Monetary History. The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden. , BCD Akarnania# 291 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# 1 Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer; 1878. Die Münzen Akarnaniens. Druck der k.-k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, Austria. , Postolakas# 671 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

Statue of Aphrodite Aineias standing right, holding an aphlaston in extended right hand. In the background, stag facing right and to the left, long scepter surmounted by dove standing right. All within laurel wreath.

Reverse

Prow facing right, decorated with laurel wreath. Inscription in two lines above and monogram to the right.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΛEYKAΔIΩN
ΑΓΗΜΩΝ

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 291	18 Oct 2007	VF	USD 256.12 (EUR 220.00) (+ buyer's premium)
= BCD Akarnania 291 = Callataÿ Late 192
© Münzen & Medaillen GmbH
	CGB Mail Bid Sale 11 Lot 78	21 Jan 2002	VF	Unsold
= Callataÿ Late 191
© CGB