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Stater
| Issuer | Stymphalos |
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| Year | 350 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Herakles striding vigorously to left, depicted nude save for the lionskin draped and wrapped around his raised left arm. His right arm is raised above his head, club in hand, poised to deliver a downward blow. The ethnic inscription ΣΤΥΜΦΑΛΙΩΝ runs along the periphery of the field, while the abbreviated letters ΣΟ appear between the hero's legs, likely denoting a magistrate or civic official. |
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| Mint | Stymphalos |
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| Additional information |
Stymphalos, a minor Arcadian polis nestled in its famous lake basin, struck coins for only a brief window in the fourth century BC before being absorbed into the Achaean political orbit. Civic silver issues of this quality from such a small community are genuinely rare — Stymphalos lacked the commercial weight of Corinth or Argos, and its coinage served local political rather than trade purposes.
The BCD Peloponnesos collection, from which this reference derives, remains the definitive corpus for this series. Fewer than a handful of Stymphalian staters appear at auction in any given decade.