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Stater
| Issuer | Aegina |
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| Year | 350 BC - 338 BC |
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| Value | Stater (2) |
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| Obverse description | Land tortoise (Testudo graeca) depicted in high relief, viewed from above, with finely rendered carapace divided into clearly articulated scutes arranged in the characteristic geometric pattern of the species. The head protrudes upward at the top of the flan, with all four limbs extended outward and the tail visible at the base. The plastron and marginal scutes are rendered with careful attention to naturalistic detail, filling the irregularly shaped flan. The tortoise type is the hallmark civic emblem of Aegina, replacing the earlier sea turtle design during the classical period. |
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| Reverse lettering | A I |
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Aegina was the first Greek city-state to strike coinage, its silver staters appearing as early as the late seventh century BC. By the mid-fourth century, when this piece was struck, Aegina had long been politically diminished — expelled from its own island by Athens in 431 BC and its population replaced with Athenian cleruchs. The Aeginetans eventually returned, but the polis never recovered its former commercial dominance. These later staters were struck under Macedonian shadow, with Philip II's consolidation of Greece culminating at Chaeronea in 338 BC closing this series entirely.