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Stater
| Issuer | Kroton |
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| Year | 530 BC - 510 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Obverse description | Tripod depicted in high relief at center, with three slender legs terminating in lion's paw feet resting on a ground line, and three upward-curving handles flanking the bowl at the top. The composition is rendered in a severe archaic style characteristic of early South Italian coinage, filling the field symmetrically. A beaded border encircles the design. The ethnic legend ϘΡΟ (an abbreviation for Kroton) appears to the left of the tripod in archaic Greek characters. |
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| Obverse lettering | ϘΡΟ |
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Kroton's early staters belong to a distinctive south Italian tradition of incuse coinage, a technique shared among a handful of neighboring Achaean colonies — Sybaris, Metapontion, Kaulonia — in which the reverse carries a mirror-image incuse of the obverse type. The convention is so geographically and chronologically specific that its adoption is thought to reflect either a monetary agreement among these cities or the influence of a single influential die-cutter working across the region around the late sixth century.
Kroton itself was a city of unusual political weight in this period, home to the Pythagorean community that effectively governed civic life for decades before a violent purge around 510 BC.