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GREEK COINS
here. The Roman series comes down to Caracalla,
and appears to have been also autonomous.
Acarnania.—As far back as the fifth century b.c. this
country formed itself into a confederacy, with Stratos
on the Acheloiis as its capital, and there are coins in
silver (Corinthian staters) and bronze. Stratos, Leucas,
and Thyrreium were the principal centres and mints.
The heads of Zeus, Apollo, Pallas, Bellerophon, and
the personified Acheloiis occur on the money. The
Romans partly broke up the union by severing Leucas
from it in b.c. 167 ; and the later coinage bears the
names of magistrates or strategoi. It is noticeable
that the bronze currency of Leucas about b.c. 300 is
often struck over pieces of Philip of Macedon. There
was probably no coinage after the second century b.c.
JEtojaa.—The earliest iEtolian money appears to be
of a federal cast, and to refer to the period from the
third to the second century b.c, when ^Etolia formed
itself into a League to resist first the Macedonians,
and subsequently the Gauls. The seated figure on
the reverse type of the earliest tetradrachms represents
iEtolia armed, with military trophies, and is supposed
to have been copied from the statue at Delphi, placed
there in grateful memory of the victories over the
invaders. There is a Gaulish trumpet at the feet of
the heroine, who sits on a pile of Macedonian and
Gaulish shields mingled together. There are a few
bronze coins with iEtolian types belonging to cities
outside the League, but in alliance with it.
Locris (Eastern), or Locri Opuntii.—It is to be
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