Stater

Corinthian staters circulated more widely than almost any other Greek silver issue, functioning as a de facto trade currency across the western Mediterranean, Sicily, and the Adriatic colonies. Corinth's commercial reach meant these coins were imitated by at least forty city-states and regional powers — the so-called "Pegasi" copies range from near-perfect to barely coherent, which speaks to how desperately trading partners wanted a coin their counterparts would accept without argument.

Ravel's 1006 is a late grouping within her foundational 1936 typology, placing this piece in the final quarter of the fourth century as Macedonian expansion was reshaping Aegean trade networks and Corinth's own political autonomy was under increasing pressure from Philip II.