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Stater
| Issuer | Ambrakia |
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| Year | 360 BC - 338 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Pegasi#121, HGC 3.1#213 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in left-facing profile, rendered in fine Classical style with delicate facial features and loose locks of hair escaping beneath the bowl of a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head; the cheekpieces are raised. An oinochoe (wine jug) is depicted as a secondary symbol in the right field behind the goddess's neck, serving as a civic identifier for Ambrakia. The workmanship reflects the high artistic standard characteristic of Ambrakian coinage of the mid-fourth century BC. |
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Ambrakia was an Ambrakian Gulf colony originally founded by Gorgos of Corinth around 625 BC, and its coinage reflects a persistent Corinthian monetary influence — the stater module and the Pegasos type both derive directly from Corinthian convention. The city maintained this numismatic alignment even as its political fortunes shifted, eventually falling under Pyrrhic control in the early third century.
The date range on this piece places it squarely in the years preceding the Macedonian absorption of Epirus, when Ambrakian civic identity was still intact enough to sustain independent coinage. Philip II's campaigns effectively ended that autonomy by 338 BC.