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Stater
| Issuer | Leukas |
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| Year | 400 BC - 330 BC |
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| Value | 1 Stater = 3 Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head, rendered in fine classical Greek style with well-modeled facial features. To the right of the goddess's neck, the letter Λ (Lambda) appears alongside what appears to be a caduceus or similar symbol, serving as a magistrate's or mint mark. The portrait displays the characteristic high relief and artistic refinement associated with Akarnanian coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Leukas, the Corinthian colony on the Akarnanian coast, operated one of the more prolific western Greek mints producing Pegasus staters — a coinage type so widely distributed across the Adriatic and into Illyria that scholars have used die-linkage studies to reconstruct mint output sequences across the entire region. The Corinthian colonial staters circulated as a trusted trade currency well beyond their issuing cities, partly because Corinth's commercial reach made the type recognizable from Sicily to the Black Sea.
The SNG Copenhagen 345 variant designation suggests a die combination not precisely matching the primary sequence — worth noting for collectors tracking the Leukas series against Ravel's foundational die study.