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Stater
| Issuer | Ambrakia |
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| Year | 404 BC - 360 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, wearing a Corinthian helmet with a plain bowl and upturned cheek guards. To her left (behind the head), a nude male figure wearing a pilos helmet stands facing, his right hand resting upon a round shield set on the ground and his left hand gripping a long staff or spear; the figure is rendered in a compact, archaic style. The inscription ΓOPΓOΣ appears in Greek characters in the lower right field of the reverse, identifying this issue by magistrate name. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ambrakia, the Corinthian colony on the Ambracian Gulf, struck pegasi on the standard inherited directly from its mother city — a monetary relationship that kept the colony commercially legible across the western Greek world for generations. The specific dies referenced in Ravel's corpus suggest this piece falls within a transitional grouping produced as Ambrakia began asserting greater iconographic independence from Corinthian types, a shift that accelerated through the mid-fourth century.
The city's coinage was disrupted permanently in 189 BC when Fulvius Nobilior sacked Ambrakia after a prolonged siege, stripping it of its art and ending independent mint activity entirely.