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Stater
| Issuer | Anaktorion (Akarnania) |
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| Year | 320 BC - 280 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Pegasos depicted in full flight to the right, rendered with characteristic energy of the Corinthian tradition: wings raised and spread prominently above the body, forelegs extended in a bounding gallop, and the tail sweeping downward. The musculature of the mythical winged horse is boldly modeled in high relief. An ivy leaf appears below the figure in the lower field, serving as a civic symbol identifying the issuing city of Anaktorion. |
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| Mint | Anaktorion |
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Anaktorion was a small Akarnanian city-state on the Gulf of Ambracia whose coinage was produced in close political and commercial relationship with Corinth — the Pegasos type it adopted was essentially a Corinthian franchise, circulating across a trade network that stretched from the Adriatic coast into the Greek interior. The city was refounded as a Corinthian colony after being stripped of its original Akarnan population, a dispossession Thucydides records in some detail.
The local magistrate's symbol appearing on these staters is the primary tool for attribution to Anaktorion specifically, distinguishing them from the broader Corinthian-type production of the region.