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Obol
| Issuer | Korkyra (Epeiros) |
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| Year | 525 BC - 470 BC |
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| Weight | 0.71 g |
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| Obverse description | A scallop shell depicted in high relief, viewed from above, with clearly rendered radiating ribs extending from a pronounced umbo at the apex to the broad, rounded base. The shell fills the central field of the flan, which is otherwise plain and unlettered. The design is characteristic of the archaic Korkyraean series and reflects the maritime identity of the issuing city. |
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| Mint | Korkyra (modern Corfu, Greece) |
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Korkyra — modern Corfu — was a Corinthian colony that spent much of its early history in bitter conflict with its founding city, a rivalry that would eventually drag Athens and Sparta into the catastrophic sequence of events preceding the Peloponnesian War. These fractional silver issues belong to the period when Korkyra was commercially aggressive enough to maintain its own independent coinage tradition rather than defer to Corinthian monetary conventions. The island's position astride the Adriatic trade routes made even the smallest denominations economically meaningful.