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Stater
| Issuer | Hipponion |
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| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head, with a large bowl-shaped skull piece. Curling locks of hair emerge beneath the helmet at the nape of the neck, and a round earring is visible at the ear. The portrait is rendered in fine archaic-to-classical Greek style, with strong facial modelling and a serene profile. The field is plain, with no legend or inscription on this side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hipponion, a Locrian colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Bruttium, had a fractured early history — sacked by Dionysius I of Syracuse in 388 BC and its population forcibly relocated to Syracuse. The city was subsequently resettled, first by Carthaginian-backed forces and later reorganized under varying Italic pressures. This stater belongs to the post-resettlement phase of the mint, when the city was reasserting enough civic stability to produce quality silver coinage under its restored name.
The Pegasi reference situates this among a tightly catalogued group with limited die pairs known.