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Stater
| Issuer | Pergamon |
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| Year | 335 BC - 330 BC |
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| Value | 1 Stater = 20 Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Archaistic cult image of Pallas Athena (Palladion) depicted standing facing in rigid, hieratic posture, raising a spear aloft in her extended right hand in a thrusting or striking attitude, and bearing on her left arm a round shield decorated with a four-pointed star device and a fillet suspended below. A crested Corinthian helmet is placed to the lower left of the figure. The entire design is enclosed within a deep cupped circular incuse, a hallmark of the early Philip II and Pergamene gold stater series. No legend appears on this issue. |
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| Mint | Pergamon |
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| Additional information |
Pergamon in the 330s BC was not yet the powerful Attalid kingdom it would become — that transformation was still a century away. This stater belongs to the city's period under Macedonian hegemony, struck roughly contemporaneously with Alexander the Great's campaigns into Persia. The timing is not incidental: the sudden availability of Persian treasury gold after 334 BC disrupted coinage patterns across western Asia Minor, and civic gold issues like this one became increasingly rare as Alexandrine types flooded the region.
The Gulbenkian and De Luynes provenances alone place this among a handful of specimens with documented 19th-century collection histories.