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Stater
| Issuer | Kroton |
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| Year | 425 BC - 350 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Eagle of Kroton standing left, head turned slightly upward, wings folded, perched upon an Ionic capital rendered in fine relief. The city ethnic ϘPOT appears in the upper field to the right of the eagle, executed in archaic Greek letters. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. The composition reflects the high artistic standard of South Italian coinage of the classical period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ϘPOT ME |
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Kroton's staters of this period reflect the city's complicated position in Magna Graecia following its catastrophic defeat by the Lucanians at the Laos River around 390 BC, an engagement that effectively ended Kroton's regional dominance. Production likely continued under diminished civic circumstances, which may partly explain the relatively wide date range assigned to this type — die studies have struggled to compress it further.
The incuse technique, inherited from the earlier Pythagorean-era coinage tradition associated with this mint, was long abandoned by this issue. What persisted was the exceptional die-cutting quality for which Kroton's engravers were known throughout the Greek west.