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Stater
| Issuer | Corinth |
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| Year | 350 BC - 285 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, portrayed in fine three-quarter relief with curling locks of hair escaping from beneath a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head, the cheek guards raised. The goddess's facial features are rendered with sensitive classical artistry, reflecting the high craftsmanship of the Corinthian mint in the mid-fourth to early third century BC. To the right of the neck, a cuirass is depicted as a secondary control symbol. The magistrate's monogram AΛ appears in the field to the right of the portrait, identifying the issuing authority responsible for this emission. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Corinthian staters of this period circulated far beyond the Greek mainland — they were accepted currency across much of the western Mediterranean and into the Adriatic colonies, making them among the most widely traveled silver coins of the 4th century. Corinth's commercial reach through its colonies at Syracuse, Leucas, and Ambracia meant local imitations proliferated across northwestern Greece and Sicily, some nearly indistinguishable from metropolitan issues without die analysis.
The BCD Corinth#120 var. attribution signals a die combination not precisely matched in the BCD corpus — worth investigating against Ravel's die study, which remains the foundational reference for sorting metropolitan from colonial production.