Stater

Corinthian staters of this period were among the most widely accepted trade coins in the ancient Mediterranean, circulating far beyond the Greek world into Sicily, southern Italy, and along Adriatic trade routes. So ubiquitous were they that colonial imitations — struck by Corinthian settlements and allied cities — are often catalogued separately from metropolitan issues, and distinguishing them requires close attention to die work and fabric. Ravel's exhaustive 1936 die study remains the primary reference for sequencing these issues.