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Stater
| Issuer | Kaulonia |
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| Year | 400 BC - 388 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Apollo depicted nude, striding vigorously to the right in an archaic style, extending a laurel branch forward in his raised right hand while a fillet or ribbon drapes over his outstretched left arm. A small Daimon figure appears on the god's left arm in some die variants. A bird trap or snare device is positioned in the left field. The composition reflects the strong South Italian Greek engraving tradition, with bold, energetic modeling of the deity's musculature characteristic of the late fifth to early fourth century BC. |
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| Reverse description | A stag stands in profile to the right, rendered with naturalistic detail including a prominent branching rack of antlers and elegantly elongated legs, set upon a plain ground line. The Greek ethnic legend ΚΑYΛΩN is inscribed along the upper periphery and IATAΣ along the right field, together reading ΚΑYΛΩNIATAΣ, meaning 'of the Kauloniates.' The figure of the stag is rendered in fine relief, consistent with the accomplished die-engraving of Magna Graecia coinage of this period. A decorative cable or wave border encircles the entire design within the coin's irregular flan. |
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Kaulonia was one of the Achaean colonies on the Bruttian coast of southern Italy, destroyed by Dionysius I of Syracuse in 389 BC. Most of its coinage was struck in the decades immediately preceding that destruction, which means this stater comes from a city with very little time left. After the sack, the population was relocated to Rhegion and the city itself was razed — no subsequent municipal coinage was ever struck in Kaulonia's name.