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Stater
| Issuer | Pheneos |
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| Year | 360 BC - 350 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΕΝΕΩΝ |
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| Mint | Pheneos, Arcadia |
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Pheneos was a minor Arcadian city-state whose coinage output was limited and tightly concentrated — the city never maintained a sustained mint, and staters bearing its name survive in very small numbers. The BCD Peloponnesos collection, one of the most exhaustive assemblies of Peloponnesian bronze and silver ever formed, logged only a handful of attributable specimens, making any example with a clean provenance genuinely scarce rather than nominally so.
The city sat in a highland basin notorious for seasonal flooding caused by the katavothra — natural sinkholes that periodically failed to drain the surrounding plain — a geographic instability that likely kept Pheneos economically marginal and its mint intermittent.