Didrachm - Polemarchus

Leukas was one of the few Akarnanian cities to continue striking silver coinage into the late second century BC, well after most of the region had shifted to bronze or ceased minting altogether. The magistrate name Polemarchus, which appears on this issue, is not a title but a personal name serving in an eponymous civic role — a practice that allows approximate sequencing within the late series catalogued by Callataÿ.

Blumer's foundational study of Akarnanian coinage remains the baseline reference for this type, though Callataÿ's later die study tightened the chronology considerably. The specific die pairing here falls within a group associated with declining output as Roman administrative pressure reshaped civic finances across the region after 167 BC.