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Stater
| Issuer | Ambrakia |
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| Year | 280 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a Corinthian helmet adorned with a neck flap; a pearl necklace encircles her throat. In the right field, behind the nape of her neck, a horizontally oriented ear of grain appears as a mint control symbol. The portraiture is rendered in the fine, high-relief style characteristic of northwestern Greek coinage of the early Hellenistic period. |
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| Mint | Ambrakia |
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Ambrakia, the Corinthian colony on the Ambracian Gulf, struck its own pegasi independently of Corinth — a monetary autonomy it exercised aggressively during the fourth and third centuries BC. The city's output was substantial enough that Ambrakian staters circulated well beyond the region, turning up in hoards as far afield as the Italian peninsula. By 280 BC, the city was navigating the turbulent aftermath of the Pyrrhic war machine; Pyrrhos of Epeiros had used Ambrakia as his capital, and the mint's productivity during this period likely reflects the financial demands of maintaining a royal court and campaign treasury on the city's doorstep.