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Stater
| Issuer | Kroton |
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| Year | 400 BC - 325 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The hero Herakles seated in three-quarter view to the left, nude, resting upon a rock or skin, his muscular body rendered with considerable anatomical detail. He holds a phiale or patera in his outstretched right hand and his club stands upright to the left beside him. Numeral or control marks appear in the upper field, including the letters MΔ and a triangular symbol (Δ). Various attributes of the hero, including what appears to be a kantharos or oinochoe, are disposed in the lower field, along with an eagle. The exergue and field bear the ethnic inscription ΚΡΟΤΩ and additional control marks consistent with the series. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Kroton, the Achaean colony on the toe of Italy's boot, struck these staters through a period of dramatic political contraction. The city had been catastrophically weakened by Dionysios I of Syracuse, who devastated much of Magna Graecia in the early fourth century, and Kroton never fully recovered its earlier dominance. By mid-century the city was increasingly hemmed in by Bruttian pressure from the interior, a grinding territorial erosion that would eventually end Kroton's independence altogether.
HN Italy 2164 represents a later phase of the city's coinage, struck from an economy operating well below its archaic peak.