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Stater
| Issuer | Amphictyonic League |
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| Year | 336 BC - 334 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Veiled and laureate head of Demeter facing left, rendered in fine high relief with naturalistic modeling typical of late Classical Greek coinage. The goddess wears a laurel wreath over her veil, whose drapery folds fall gracefully along the right side of the flan. Her hair is arranged in loose, wavy curls escaping beneath the veil. The portrait exhibits the sensitive, idealized style associated with the Phokian die-cutting tradition of the mid-4th century BC. The field is plain and unlettered. |
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| Mint | Delphi Mint |
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The Amphictyonic League controlled Delphi and its sanctuary revenues, and these staters were struck during a politically volatile window — the period immediately following Philip II of Macedon's intervention in the Fourth Sacred War, which ended in 346 BC and left Macedon as the dominant power arbitrating Greek religious affairs. By 336–334 BC, Philip was dead and Alexander had inherited both the throne and the League's complicated politics. That the League continued striking its own silver through this transition speaks to the sanctuary's residual financial independence, however nominal.