The Aetolian League struck silver at a moment of genuine regional power — the federation had sacked Delphi's attackers, controlled the Amphictyonic Council, and was maneuvering aggressively against Macedon and Achaea simultaneously. This drachm falls within the period bracketed by the Social War and the early stages of the First Macedonian War, when Aetolia was effectively playing Rome against Philip V for territorial advantage in western Greece.
The Tsangari 675 reference places this among the better-catalogued emissions of the series, though the absence of a BCD Akarnania number suggests it fell outside Calhoun's primary collecting focus.
The Aetolian League struck silver at a moment of genuine regional power — the federation had sacked Delphi's attackers, controlled the Amphictyonic Council, and was maneuvering aggressively against Macedon and Achaea simultaneously. This drachm falls within the period bracketed by the Social War and the early stages of the First Macedonian War, when Aetolia was effectively playing Rome against Philip V for territorial advantage in western Greece.
The Tsangari 675 reference places this among the better-catalogued emissions of the series, though the absence of a BCD Akarnania number suggests it fell outside Calhoun's primary collecting focus.