Circa 300-250 BCE
AE 16 mm, 2.78 g, 4 h
Laureate head of Apollo to right.
Rev. ΦΥ-ΘΕ Tripod; in upper left field, monogram of ΔΙ.
BCD Akarnania 354 var. (arrangement of legend). HGC 4, 906. Imhoof-Blumer, Akananien, 155, 7
Phytia was a strongly fortified city on the interior of Akarnania. After Alexander the Great died, it was taken by the Aetolian League.
Coins from this city are extremely rare.
219 BCE
Ambrakia is besieged by Philip V of Macedon, Phytia taken, and Metropolis is burned during the Social War between the Achaean League and the Aetolian League, of which Ambrakia is a member.