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Stater
| Issuer | Kroton |
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| Year | 425 BC - 350 BC |
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| Currency | Achaean drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ϘPO |
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| Mint | Kroton Mint |
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| Additional information |
Kroton's silver staters are among the most technically distinctive coins of Magna Graecia, struck using the incuse technique pioneered in the region around 530 BC — a method in which the reverse design is sunk rather than raised, producing a mirror image of the obverse in intaglio. By the late fifth century, when this piece was produced, the pure incuse style had already given way to a transitional approach, reflecting broader shifts in south Italian minting convention.
The city itself never fully recovered its political dominance after the Pythagorean oligarchy was violently expelled around 450 BC, and the coinage of this period reflects a polis minting on reduced ambitions.