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Stater
| Issuer | Kroton (Bruttium) |
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| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Eagle displayed facing left, perched upon an olive branch, wings fully spread and raised in a powerful heraldic posture, the head turned sharply to the left with beak open. The plumage is rendered in fine engraved detail, with individual feathers articulated across the wings and body. The talons grip the branch firmly, the leafy olive spray curving gracefully beneath the bird. The design fills the flan with bold, high-relief workmanship characteristic of the finest late Classical Italiote coinage. No legend appears on the obverse; the field is otherwise plain. |
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| Reverse lettering | KPOTΩNIATAN B |
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Kroton's coinage reflects the city's unusual minting tradition of incuse relief — a technique used across several Achaean colonies in southern Italy from the late sixth century onward, in which one face carries a raised design and the other the same image sunk in intaglio. By the mid-fourth century, when this stater was struck, Kroton had long abandoned the strict incuse convention of its archaic predecessors, but the city's mint remained active despite severe political contraction following catastrophic military defeat by Dionysios I of Syracuse in 379 BC and sustained pressure from the Bruttii, who would ultimately overrun the city before 300 BC.