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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Korkyra (Epeiros) |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Amphora depicted facing, rendered in high relief at the center of the flan, with a broad ovoid body tapering to a pointed foot and a short neck flanked by two upswept handles decorated with applied knobs at their upper terminations. The vessel is presented frontally in a plain, unbordered field, characteristic of the archaic-to-classical coinage of Korkyra. The design fills the flan with bold, confident engraving consistent with the civic coinage tradition of the western Greek colonies. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Korkyra — modern Corfu — occupied a strategically vital position on the Adriatic sea lanes, and its coinage circulated well beyond the island itself, facilitating trade between the Greek world and the Illyrian and Italian coasts. The city's chronic entanglement with both Corinth and Athens, most dramatically during the disputes that helped precipitate the Peloponnesian War, meant its mint operated under persistent political pressure throughout this period.
The hemidrachm denomination was the workhorse of small commercial exchange here, likely used heavily in port transactions.