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Drachm
| Issuer | Ambrakia |
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| Year | 210 BC |
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| Weight | 1.68 g |
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| Reverse description | Head of Athena facing left, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back upon the head, adorned with elaborate floral or acanthus decoration. Her flowing hair cascades in wavy locks beneath the helmet and falls across the neck. To the right of the neck, in the field, a kantharos (drinking cup) is depicted, serving as a secondary civic symbol. The portrait displays the refined Hellenistic style characteristic of late Ambrakian coinage. |
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| Mint | Ambrakia |
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Ambrakia, the Corinthian colony on the Ambrakian Gulf, lost its independence to Rome in 189 BC following the sack by Marcus Fulvius Nobilior — an act the Senate itself considered excessively brutal. This piece predates that destruction by roughly two decades, struck while the city still operated under Epirote influence following Pyrrhus, who had made Ambrakia his capital. The city's coinage tradition was deeply Corinthian in character, inherited from its founding, and persisted with remarkable consistency even as Epirote political control shifted around it.