Terina was a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Bruttium, founded by Croton in the late sixth century. Its coinage is remarkable for the consistency and ambition of its die-cutting, and this stater type falls within the city's most accomplished period of production — a window of roughly two decades before Terina was destroyed by the Bruttians around 356 BC. The city never recovered and struck no coinage afterward, making the entire series finite by historical accident rather than monetary policy.
The die-engraving tradition at Terina shows strong stylistic links to the Sicilian workshops, and several scholars have proposed the involvement of itinerant engravers moving between Syracusan and South Italian mints during exactly this period.
Terina was a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Bruttium, founded by Croton in the late sixth century. Its coinage is remarkable for the consistency and ambition of its die-cutting, and this stater type falls within the city's most accomplished period of production — a window of roughly two decades before Terina was destroyed by the Bruttians around 356 BC. The city never recovered and struck no coinage afterward, making the entire series finite by historical accident rather than monetary policy.
The die-engraving tradition at Terina shows strong stylistic links to the Sicilian workshops, and several scholars have proposed the involvement of itinerant engravers moving between Syracusan and South Italian mints during exactly this period.