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Triobol
| Issuer | Aetolian League |
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| Year | 230 BC - 220 BC |
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| Weight | 2.85 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Aitolia in right profile, wearing a broad-brimmed kausia helmet adorned with a central boss, her flowing wavy hair escaping beneath. A single pendant earring is visible at the ear. The portraiture is rendered in the fine Hellenistic style characteristic of Aetolian League coinage, with naturalistic facial features and careful attention to the drapery at the neck. A partial magistrate's monogram, reading Λ Υ, appears in the lower right field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Aetolian League struck silver fractional coinage during the period when the federation was at the peak of its territorial influence, having expanded aggressively through central Greece following the Gallic invasions of 279 BC — a military repulsion the Aetolians leveraged politically for decades afterward. This triobol falls within the interval when the League controlled Delphi and drew real revenue from the Amphictyonic sanctuary, giving their coinage unusual institutional weight for a federal issue.
BCD Akarnania 463 places this piece within a closely studied die sequence assembled from the Müller collection and subsequent auction appearances.