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Stater
| Issuer | Argilos (Macedon) |
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| Year | 520 BC - 510 BC |
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| Reference(s) | HGC 3.1#459, Liampi Argilos#1 |
| Obverse description | Pegasus in full gallop to the left, rendered in archaic relief with a prominent curved and striated wing fanning upward from the body. The winged horse is depicted with forelegs extended and hindquarters lowered in a dynamic flying-gallop posture. The wing is rendered with fine radiating feather detail characteristic of early Macedonian coinage. No legend or inscription appears in the smooth surrounding field. The style is consistent with late archaic Greek die-cutting of the late sixth century BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (520 BC - 510 BC) |
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Argilos was a Thasian colony on the Strymonic Gulf, positioned to exploit the silver-rich hinterland of Thrace before Amphipolis was founded nearby by Athens in 437 BC and effectively strangled its commercial reach. This stater belongs to the colony's earliest and most productive monetary phase, when Argilean merchants were extracting and trading ore from the Pangaion mines before Athenian and Macedonian interests closed in.
The Liampi corpus remains the definitive die study for this series; examples attributable to the first die grouping are exceptionally rare in any condition.