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Stater
| Issuer | Corinth |
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| Year | 375 BC - 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | Δ I |
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Corinthian staters were among the most widely accepted trade coins of the ancient Mediterranean, circulating far beyond the Greek world into Sicily, Epirus, and the Levant. Their acceptance was so broad that local authorities in northwestern Greece and Magna Graecia produced imitative issues — sometimes nearly indistinguishable from the Corinthian originals — to meet regional demand Corinth itself couldn't satisfy.
Ravel's classification system, developed in her 1936 monograph, remains the standard attribution framework, organizing these issues by obverse die groupings. The Pegasi reference series cross-indexes her work with later scholarship on die links.