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| Issuer | Kroton |
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| Year | 425 BC - 375 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HN Italy#2208 , HGC 1#1513 |
| Obverse description | Eagle of Zeus depicted standing to right, its head turned downward, perched upon a ram's head facing right. The bird's plumage is rendered with fine detail, its talons firmly gripping the trophy element below. The composition fills the flan and is executed in the archaic Italiote style typical of Krotoniate bronzes of the late fifth to early fourth century BC. The field is plain, with no legend or subsidiary devices. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kroton's bronze coinage of this period is poorly understood in terms of internal chronology, and the span assigned to this type reflects scholarly uncertainty as much as evidence. The city had been a dominant power in Magna Graecia before its catastrophic defeat by Lokroi and Rhegion around 480 BC — a blow from which it recovered slowly, and which partly explains the modest scale of its bronze issues relative to its earlier silver.