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Stater
| Issuer | Argos Amphilochikon |
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| Year | 330 BC - 280 BC |
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| Weight | 8.20 g |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head, rendered with fine detail in the crest, cheek-guards, and neck-guard. The goddess displays a serene, archaic facial profile. The ethnic abbreviation ΑΜ appears in the upper left field, referencing the issuing authority of Argos Amphilochikon. A javelin is depicted behind the head in the right field, serving as an additional identifying device. |
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| Mintage | ND (330 BC - 280 BC) |
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Argos Amphilochikon was a small city in the Ambracian Gulf region of northwestern Greece, distinct from the more famous Peloponnesian Argos. Its coinage is sparse enough that individual die studies remain the primary tool for sequencing issues. Pegasi #38 places this stater within a typological framework built largely by Newell, whose unpublished notes on Epirote and Akarnanian coinages still inform scholarship on the region.
The mint likely ceased striking silver when Pyrrhic-era political reorganization reshaped civic autonomy across northwestern Greece in the early third century.