Corinthian silver dominated western Greek trade routes for over two centuries, with the pegasi — as these coins were informally known — circulating far beyond the city's own sphere into Sicily, Epirus, and the Adriatic colonies. The type was so widely trusted that it was adopted wholesale by dozens of allied and imitative mints, which complicates attribution. BCD 159 falls within a well-documented period following Corinth's role in the Corinthian War's aftermath, when the city rebuilt commercial influence it had lost politically.
The BCD collection, dispersed by Leu Numismatik in 2006, remains the benchmark for Corinthian coinage classification.
Corinthian silver dominated western Greek trade routes for over two centuries, with the pegasi — as these coins were informally known — circulating far beyond the city's own sphere into Sicily, Epirus, and the Adriatic colonies. The type was so widely trusted that it was adopted wholesale by dozens of allied and imitative mints, which complicates attribution. BCD 159 falls within a well-documented period following Corinth's role in the Corinthian War's aftermath, when the city rebuilt commercial influence it had lost politically.
The BCD collection, dispersed by Leu Numismatik in 2006, remains the benchmark for Corinthian coinage classification.