Stater

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.