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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8318347, member: 118780&quot;]I doubt I&#039;m saying anything you don&#039;t already know, since this period is at least 60 years after my primary collecting period ends, but the best I think you can do is &quot;approximate&quot; his tenure with a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two issues cloud it.</p><ol> <li>Philopoemen was only elected strategos of the Achaian League. He never led it (I don&#039;t think anyone did - it was an assembly). Therefore, he never had minting authority.</li> <li>Although coinage of the Achaian League was relatively uniform, it was still minted by individual cities. Therefore, you&#039;d need to correlate which city he was most active in.</li> </ol><p>It appears he was strategos in (at least) 209, 201-199, and 193 BCE. So, BMC 5ff (Megara) has been dated to 196-146 BCE. The odds are small, but there is a chance. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Antigoneia and Messene have similar issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect a research paper on the Achaian League may provide more insight than my current references of Wikipedia and Wildwinds.</p><p><br /></p><p>It definitely seems like you can approximate his strategos tenure with a coin, but I doubt a coin directly attributable to him exists.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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