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Stater
| Issuer | Corinth |
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| Year | 405 BC - 345 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head and adorned with a crest, her flowing hair visible beneath the helmet's cheekpieces. The goddess's facial features are finely rendered in high relief, exhibiting the artistic refinement characteristic of fourth-century Corinthian coinage. To the left of the neck, a small pilos (conical cap) serves as a secondary control symbol. The field is otherwise plain, with no legend present. |
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Corinthian staters of this period circulated far beyond the Greek mainland — they have been excavated across Sicily, southern Italy, the Adriatic coast, and as far as the Levant, largely because Corinth's commercial network was unusually broad for a city-state of its size. The type was so trusted as a trade medium that Corinthian colonies from Ambracia to Syracuse struck close imitations, sometimes indistinguishable without die study.
HGC 4, 1834 covers a substantial chronological range, and attribution within it depends heavily on stylistic sequencing developed by Ravel and later refined by Pegasi's corpus work.