CORINTH SILVER STATER – ISSUE WITH EAGLE SYMBOL EX SALTON COLLECTION – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK ACARNANIA COIN (Inv. 18525)

$1,500.00

FPL V, 24 (18525). CORINTHIA. CORINTH. 4th CENTURY BC.
Silver stater, 8.59 g, 22 mm.
Obv. Pegasus flying left, koppa below. Rev. Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet with wreath, A below chin, eagle in right field, P in exergue.
Pegasi 426; HGC 4, 1848.
Ex Salton Collection, likely acquired in the 1950s-1960s when Mr. Salton owned a numismatic firm in New York.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 5/5, matte gray cabinet patina.

This second example of a Corinthian “colt” belongs to the same period as the preceding piece, the second half of the fourth century BC. Both coins may have been struck as pay for northwestern Greek mercenaries serving in the armies of Philip II, Alexander the Great, and their immediate successors. Such mercenaries traditionally expected payment with coins of the Corinthian weight standard and featuring the long-established types of the city.