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Stater
| Issuer | Corinth |
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| Year | 400 BC - 375 BC |
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| Value | Stater (3) |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on her head and adorned with a crest and cheek guards, rendered in fine archaic style with carefully delineated facial features. The goddess's hair falls in waves beneath the helmet. A flower bud or rosette motif appears in the right field behind the neck, serving as a secondary symbol characteristic of this emission. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Corinthian staters of this period were among the most widely circulated coins in the ancient Mediterranean — so ubiquitous in trade that they acquired the nickname "colts" (pōloi) after Pegasus, and were imitated by dozens of city-states across northwestern Greece, Sicily, and the Adriatic colonies. Their acceptance was essentially supranational; Corinth's commercial reach meant these pieces passed through hands that had never seen the city itself.
Ravel 700 falls within a well-documented obverse die grouping, though die-link studies for this stretch of the series remain complicated by the sheer volume of surviving specimens and the number of active dies in simultaneous use.