A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients ...

B.C. 280-190. 77
12. xLipiruS. JR. Obv. Heads of Dodonsean Zeus and Dione; behind,
monogram. JRev. AflEIPriTAN. Butting bull; tlie whole in
oak-wreath. Wt. 154 grs.
When the family of Pyrrhus became extinct, about B.C.
238, a republican form of government was established in
Epirus, which continued till the conquest of Macedonia
by Eome, in 168. This coin belongs to the earlier period
of the Epirote League. For later coins, cf. VI. B. 16, 17.
13. Acarnania. M. Obv. Head of river-god Achelous. In field,
AYKOYPrOZ. Bev. AKAPNANQN. Apollo Actius, seated,
holding bow. Wt. 158 grs.
These coins of the Acarnanian League were struck
about the middle of the third century, probably at
Leucas. The style of the seated Apollo on the reverse
may be compared with that of Apollo on the tetradrachm
of Antigonus Doson ? V. B. 6.
14. ^tolia. N. Obv. Head of Athena. Eev. AITOAON. iEtolia,
seated on shields ; she holds Nike. Wt. 132-7 grs.
This figure is sometimes but wrongly called Atalanta.
15. -^tolia. N. Obv. Head of Herakles. Hev. AlTOAHN. Similar.
In field, Artemis. Wt. Q6 grs.
16. iEtolia. M. Obv. Head of Herakles. JRev. AITOAON.
^Etolia, seated on shields, among which the Macedonian and Gaulish
shields are conspicuous. Wt. 259 grs.
The above coins of the ^tolian League belong to the
period B.C. 279-168. The obverses are imitated from
coins of Alexander the Great. The gold stater, V. B. 14,
may be compared with the contemporary stater of
Pyrrhus, V. C. 24.
17. iEtolia. -51. Obv. Head of ^Etolus bound with oak-wreath and
diadem intertwined. Bev. AITOAriN. ^tolian hero iEtolus
naked, placing his right foot on a rock, and leaning on knotted
hunter's spear, sword under his arm. Wt. 158-4 grs.
18. iEtolia. iR. Obv. Head of Artemis; at her shoulder, bow and
quiver. Eev. AlTfiAflN. ^tolia, seated on shields. Wt. 81-8 grs.
These two coins, which bear the same magistrate's
signature, 1, were perhaps struck in the same year.