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Stater
| Issuer | Corinth |
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| Year | 400 BC - 375 BC |
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| Weight | 8.68 g |
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| Obverse lettering | Ϙ |
| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head, rendered in fine archaic-transitional style with delicate facial features and wavy locks of hair visible beneath the helmet rim. The cheek-guards of the helmet are raised. A small forepart of Pegasos appears as a control symbol in the lower right field before the goddess. The die engraving demonstrates the accomplished craftsmanship characteristic of Corinthian mint production in the early fourth century BC. |
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Corinthian staters of this period were among the most widely circulated silver coins in the Greek world, used extensively by mercenary employers to pay troops across the Mediterranean — Xenophon records Corinthian-standard silver being used in Asia Minor during precisely these decades. The type was so trusted that colonial mints from Leucas to Syracuse struck near-identical issues, a deliberate monetary alignment rather than imitation.
Pegasi #294 places this piece within a closely documented die sequence. The Corinthian series is unusually well catalogued for its era precisely because the volume of surviving examples made systematic die-linking possible.