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Stater
| Issuer | Ambracia |
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| Year | 360 BC - 338 BC |
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| Weight | 8.63 g |
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| Obverse description | Pegasos depicted in full flight to the right, with large, finely rendered outstretched wings and forelegs extended in a dynamic galloping posture. The mythological winged horse is shown with considerable artistic detail, including feathering on the wings and musculature on the body. Beneath the belly of Pegasos, the Greek letter alpha (A) appears in the field, serving as the civic initial of Ambracia. The composition fills the broad flan with vigour characteristic of Corinthian-type coinage of the fourth century BC. |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right-facing profile, rendered in the finely modelled style typical of Ambracian coinage of the mid-fourth century BC. The goddess wears a Corinthian helmet pushed back on her head, with the cheekpieces raised, revealing her face framed by flowing locks of hair cascading beneath the helmet rim. To the left of the head, a thymiaterion (incense burner) is depicted vertically in the field, serving as a distinctive civic symbol identifying the issue as Ambracian. The reverse field is broad and gently concave, with no additional inscription, the design conveying both divine authority and local civic identity. |
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Ambracia, the Corinthian colony on the Ambracian Gulf, struck pegasi — the colloquial name for Corinthian-type staters — throughout the fourth century, sharing the broad weight standard and design tradition of the Corinthian monetary system while marking coins with its own ethnic. The city's output intensified during the decades leading up to 338 BC, when Philip II's decisive victory at Chaeronea reshaped Greek power structures and left Ambracia politically exposed on the northwestern frontier.
Pegasi#112 falls within a well-documented sequence in the corpus established by Ravel and later refined by subsequent die studies.