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Didrachm - Filios
| Issuer | Leukas (Akarnania) |
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| Year | 167 BC - 100 BC |
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| Weight | 8.01 g |
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| Obverse description | Cult statue of Aphrodite Aineias standing facing right, holding an aphlaston in her extended right hand; in the background, the forepart of a stag advancing right; to the left, a tall sceptre surmounted by a dove perched right. The entire composition is enclosed within a laurel wreath border, lending a sacred, dedicatory quality consistent with the city's devotion to Aphrodite as divine ancestress. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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Leukas, the island-city connected to the Akarnanian mainland by a narrow causeway, continued striking silver after Rome's dissolution of the Achaean League in 146 BC effectively ended meaningful Greek federal coinage in the region. This late series, catalogued by Callataÿ, represents civic monetary activity persisting under Roman hegemony — not resistance, simply habit and local commercial necessity. The magistrate name Filios appears on issues tied to a narrowing chronological bracket that Callataÿ's die study places toward the final decades of the sequence.