Didrachm - Opsimos

Leukas, the island-peninsula colony founded by Corinth in the seventh century, maintained an exceptionally long tradition of Pegasos coinage long after most Akarnanian mints had abandoned the type or fallen under Roman reorganization following the settlement of 167 BC. This particular issue, attributed to the magistrate Opsimos, belongs to the twilight phase of autonomous Leukadian coinage, struck after Rome dissolved the Aitolian League and restructured northwestern Greek political arrangements — a moment when many communities quietly continued local minting under ambiguous authority. The Callataÿ "Late" classification itself signals how contested the chronology of these final issues remains among specialists.