Description: Epeiros, Ambrakia, after 148 BC. Laureate and veiled head of Dione right / A-M B-P; obelisk - all within wreath.

Diameter: AE17 mm

Weight: 5,08 g

Grade: aVF/gF

Attribution: SNG Cop. 23; BMC 5

Commentary: light green patina with some light deposits

History: During the Aetolian War (191 - 189 BC) Ambrakia was besieged by the Romans and according to Polybius used a poisonous gas against Roman tunnels.

Article Number: 006-05-07-45047