Stater

Ambracia was a Corinthian colony founded around 625 BC, and its staters follow the Corinthian tradition so closely that distinguishing municipal issues from Corinth proper requires careful attention to the subsidiary symbols and ethnic abbreviations tucked into the design fields. The city controlled a strategically vital position on the Ambracian Gulf, and its coinage circulated heavily through Epeiros and into the broader northwestern Greek world during precisely this period of regional fragmentation following the Peloponnesian War.

Ravel's classification of the Corinthian pegasus staters remains the foundational reference, with nos. 81–82 placing this issue among the earlier Ambracian municipal emissions before the city's later entanglements with Pyrrhus of Epeiros reshaped its political allegiances entirely.