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Drachm
| Issuer | Korkyra |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a bull advancing to the right, rendered in archaic relief with musculature suggested by broad, flat planes. The animal's head is turned frontally, with prominent horns and a large eye visible. The forelegs are raised in a striding posture, with the lower portion of the body truncated at the flan edge. The field is plain, with the flan showing characteristic irregular hammered edges. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.