AKARNANIA. Anaktorion. Circa 350-300 BC. Stater (Silver, 21 mm, 8.54 g, 9 h), Do..., magistrate. Pegasos flying left; below, ИA. Rev. EΠI - ΔΩ Head of Athena to left, wearing Corinthian helmet; behind neck guard, threshing flail. BCD Akarnania 107. Calciati 61. HGC 4, 1848. Imhoof-Blumer, Akarnanien -, cf. p. 70, 48 (same magistrate). A beautiful piece of attractive style. Very minor die rust on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.


Following Imhoof-Blumer, most authors describe the obverse mark as IA; however this example clearly shows that we are dealing with a monogram composed by a retrograde N and an A, the first two letters of the ethnic .