Circa 390-370 BCE
Æ 2.46g, 14mm, 7h.
Head of Artemis to right /
Bow above [pellet?] and AΛ.
BCD Peloponnesos I 1347 var. (bow with partially detached string); BCD Peloponnesos II 2631 var. (same); Traité III 948, pl. CCXXVI, 23; McClean 6958-9; Weber 4268; HGC 5, 809 var. (same)
Ex CNG inventory
Ex BCD Collection
Alea was a relatively minor city between Orchomenos and Stymphalos. Pausanias wrote that it contained a temple to Ephesian Artemis, which likely explains the image of Artemis on this coin.
Not much more is written about the city.