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Diobol
| Issuer | Anaktorion |
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| Year | 300 BC - 270 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Pegasos, the winged horse, depicted in full profile flying to the left with wings unfurled above the body and legs extended in a galloping stance. The type closely mirrors the obverse design, a characteristic feature of this small denomination from Anaktorion. The design is struck within a slightly concave incuse field, with no surrounding legend or border. |
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| Mint | Anaktorion |
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| Additional information |
Anaktorion was a small Akarnanian city-state on the Ambracian Gulf whose coinage output was modest even by regional standards. The diobol denomination served local exchange in a coastal trading environment where Corinthian staters dominated larger transactions — the fractional silver filled a practical gap without competing with the prestige currency flowing through the same port.
The BCD Akarnania reference places this among a carefully sequenced die study; BCD lot 117 specifically reflects the collector Boris Diosi's decades of fieldwork on Akarnananian issues, the most rigorous such catalogue assembled for the region.