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Stater
| Issuer | Kroton (Bruttium) |
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| Year | 480 BC - 440 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
| Obverse lettering | ϘΡΟ |
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Kroton was among the wealthiest poleis in Magna Graecia during the fifth century BC, its prosperity built on agriculture, trade, and the intellectual magnetism of the Pythagorean school, which had made the city its headquarters until a violent popular revolt expelled the Brotherhood around 450 BC. The city's coinage predates that rupture and belongs to a tradition of exceptional die-cutting that southern Italian mints sustained for generations.
These staters are struck using the incuse technique — a method peculiar to a cluster of Achaean colonies in Bruttium and Lucania, whereby the reverse carries a mirror-image incuse of the obverse type. No satisfactory explanation for why this specific group of cities adopted the format has ever achieved scholarly consensus.