Very nice and rare stater minted for Anactorium, the Corinthian colony of Acarnania, between 345 and 300 BC.
Greece
Acarnania, Anactorium, Stater 345-300 BC
Obverse: pegasus flying left, AN (N retrograde) monogram below
Reverse: head of Athena left in Corinthian helmet, API above forehead, ΔΩ and lighted altar behind head
Weight 7,91 g.
Anactorium was founded as a colony of Corinth around 630 BC. In the 4th century BC, the inhabitants of Anactorium, like other Acarnos, supported the Boeots in their fight against Sparta, and in 338 BC they supported the other Greeks in their struggle with Philip II of Macedon, which ended the Macedonian victory at Cheronea. Despite the dependence on Macedonia, the Acarnania poleis did not cease to mint their own staters, whose iconography until the middle of the 3rd century BC coincides with the coins of the metropolis - Corinth. Numerous stylistic analogies (the differences consist mainly in placing the abbreviations of the Acaranian poleis in place of the coppa symbolizing Corinth) lead some scholars to propose that the coins of Anactorium, Argos, Lekas, Metropolis and Thyrreion actually came from one Corinthian mint.
