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Stater
| Issuer | Corinth |
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| Year | 400 BC - 345 BC |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pegasus in full flight to left, depicted with powerful musculature and finely rendered spread wings, the feathers shown in careful detail. The winged horse is shown with forelegs raised and hind legs extended in a dynamic galloping pose. Beneath the body, in the lower field, appears the Corinthian koppa (Ϙ), the civic symbol serving as a mint identifier. The flan is slightly irregular, characteristic of hand-struck Corinthian coinage of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ϙ |
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Corinthian staters of this period were among the most widely circulated coins in the Greek world — so widely that they developed a distinct nickname, "colts," from the Pegasos type. Their reach extended well beyond the Corinthian sphere; they circulated heavily across northwestern Greece, Sicily, and into the Adriatic colonies, functioning almost as a regional trade currency. Corinth's commercial dominance through its two ports, Lechaion and Cenchreae, drove demand for a reliable, high-fineness silver coin that merchants on both sides of the isthmus would accept without question.
Ravel's die study remains the foundational reference for sequencing this series, distinguishing subtle obverse and reverse die pairings that help locate individual specimens within the mint's production chronology.