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Drachm
| Issuer | Korkyra |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Weight | 5.58 g |
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| Reverse description | An eight-pointed star occupying the central field, with small pellets or subsidiary stars placed between each pair of rays, creating a highly decorative stellar composition. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded (pearl) circle, itself surrounded by two concentric linear circles, forming a layered border typical of Korkyran coinage of this period. The design is deeply incuse, characteristic of the archaic and early classical Greek hammered technique. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 350 BC) |
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Korkyra — modern Corfu — occupied an uncomfortable position between Corinthian colonial authority and its own political ambitions, a tension that erupted into one of the ancient world's most destructive civil conflicts in 427 BC. Thucydides treated the Korkyraean stasis as a turning point, the moment factional violence became normalized across the Greek world. Coins struck in the decades following that catastrophe circulated through a polis still demographically hollowed out by the massacres.
The drachm series to which BMC Greek 70 belongs was heavily influenced by Corinthian weight standards, a commercial concession to the trade routes Korkyra depended on despite resenting Corinthian dominance.