Stater

Ambracia, the Corinthian colony on the Ambracian Gulf, struck its own pegasi independently of Corinth proper — a monetary assertion that reflected the city's political ambitions under the tyrant Periander and later its status as capital of the Molossian-aligned Epirote league. The specific date range here corresponds to a period of intensifying Macedonian pressure on Epirus, years before Philip II's campaigns effectively subordinated the region.

Ravel's classification of this piece as Colt 148 places it within a tightly defined die study. Ambraciote staters are notoriously difficult to sequence without die-linking.