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Stater
| Issuer | Echinos |
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| Year | 344 BC - 330 BC |
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| Weight | 8.44 g |
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| Obverse description | Pegasus in full flight, depicted in left profile with wings spread upward and forelegs extended forward. The winged horse is rendered in high relief with finely detailed musculature and feathering, characteristic of the accomplished die-cutting of the period. The figure occupies the full breadth of the broadly spread flan, with the curving tail visible to the right. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Echinos was a small Thessalian settlement in the Achaea Phthiotis region, and its coinage output was extremely limited — which explains why the BCD specimen (ex-BCD collection, one of the most systematically assembled Greek coin references ever compiled) remains a primary anchor for attributing this type. The Pegasi catalogue designation confirms the coin falls within the broader Pegasus-stater tradition of northwestern Greece, a monetary idiom that spread through trade and alliance networks rather than imperial imposition.
Very few dies are known for this issue.