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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Theodosius, post: 2643177, member: 77077&quot;]Here is an interesting Leukas Stater with Pegasos and the helmeted head of Athena.&nbsp; Does it look to you all like the obverse is a partial brokage?&nbsp; It looks a little like the imprint of the helmet on the right side of Pegasos.&nbsp; Maybe more than one helmet impact?</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this in my local coin shop on the principal of supporting stores willing to include a few ancients, even though it is somewhat damaged looking. I think it is turning out to be more interesting than I bargained for.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t see the symbols next to Athena listed in my references. It looks like a cluster of two cherries on either side of Athena and some other vegetative symbol above her head.&nbsp; Hoover lists about 25 different symbols for Leukas but none of them describe what I am seeing. If someone has the BCD catalogue of Akarnania maybe these symbols are listed?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]583428[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Akarnania, Leukas, AR Stater or Tridrachm, 375-350 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Leukas is a colony city of Corinth.&nbsp; It sat on the end of a peninsula in the Ionia sea. To increase its defensibility the Greeks cut a channel across the peninsula (known as the Dioryktos) which turned the city into an artificial island. This channel has since filled in with silt.</p><p><br /></p><p>The temple of Apollo Leukatis held an expiratory rite every year in which a criminal was thrown off the cliff into the Ionian. To slow his fall, they would <u>tie birds to his person</u>. Boats were standing by to pull him from the water in case he survived.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please help me find the missing symbols and share your thoughts on it being a brockage. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post any coins you have from Leukas or featuring Pegasos!</p><p><br /></p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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