The stater was an ancient coin of Greek or Lydian origin which circulated from about 500 BC to 50 AD. It was also heavily used by Celtic tribes.
The Gold Staters of Koson were considered as military payroll for the army of Brutus, and were a part of his 'War Chest.' They were minted in the Koson area of Thrace of what is believed to be an anonymous Scythian group.
Corinthian Stater ca 510 - 490 B.C.
Corinth, a Greek city located on the narrow strip of land joining the Peloponessos with mainland Greece, ...
Aegina AR Stater. Circa 456-431 BC. Land tortoise with segmented shell / large skew pattern with five incuse sections. SNG Del 1535ff, Dewing 1683ff,
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After the Lydians developed a bimetallic coinage, by 500 bc silver staters were being used throughout the Mediterranean world.
Stater Principal and standardized gold or silver coin of ancient Greeks and Celts.
stater: Greek coin equal to two drachms or didrachm, or 12 obols.
Stella: A gold $4 pattern never issued for circulation. Also struck in other metals.
stater - Greek electrum, gold, or silver denomination, standard in East Greece.
stephane - Greek word for crown.
Stater
An ancient Greek unit of weight. The name has been applied to several series of early Greek gold, electrum and silver coins struck to this weight standard.
A gold stater of Kanishka II with three-headed Shiva image on reverse ...
Corinth Stater
One of the first Greek states to adopt coinage, Corinth was a Greek city located on the narrow strip of land joining the Peloponessos with mainland Greece, ...
Stater or nomos, c. 120 grs.
Thirds, Sixths, and Twelfths, of the stater are also met with during this period and a few rare double-staters (c. 240 grs.) are known.
Staters and Thirds of the Achaean standard.
This very remarkable type has elicited many hypotheses. Leake was of opinion that the lustral (?) branch points to a purification by Apollo.
Stater - Any of various gold, silver or electrum coin units or coins of the ancient Greek states or cities.
{From Late Latin stater from Greek stater, akin to histanai meaning to place in the balance, literally to make stand.}
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The stater is a key exhibit in the Department of Coins and Medals of the British Museum, which houses one of the world's finest numismatic collections, comprising about 1 million objects.
Silver staters of 4th century BC Aspendos, Pamphylia, frequently bear countermarks; sometimes several on one coin. This example shows a bull walking right with the letters 'LUY' (Aramaic for Ba'al) above.
This AV stater coin was made soon after Caesar's death after Brutus and Cassius fled to the eastern empire. Rome was plunged into a bitter civil war after Caesar's assassination as several factions fought for control of the empire.
Corinth stater @390 BCE, (8.57 gm)
Obv: Helmeted laureate head of Athena left; Ivy leaf in right field
Rev: Pegasos; Koppa below.
Ex. F. Robinson ...
4. Lycian staters. There is something deeply mysterious about Lycian
money. I find its strangeness wonderfully appealing.
5. Thracian silver in general. I enjoy the energy and exuberance of ...
This Kozan stater is one of the few ancient coins I have owned in recent years that makes the grade of FDC, although it is difficult to show this on an image.
Coin #18. Stater of Sauromates IV. Unique variant. There is mistake in spelling of King's title
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Ionia-Teos, AR Stater, c.495/90-478 BC
(No legend)
Griffin seated right, both fore-paws on ground; club in right field
(No legend)
Quadripartite incuse square, rough surfaces
21mm x 25mm, 11.59g
J. M.
Thrace/Thasos. Stater
Obverse:
Naked ityphallic satyr in kneeling-running attitude right, carrying in his arms a nymph with her right arm around him (not protesting) ...
Both Alexander III staters (both from Abydos) were graded gVF...
by the same dealer
Istros drachm graded gVF by Dealer A
Istros drachm graded XF by Dealer B ...
The coins that replaced the Owl as the most commonly used international currency were Alexander the Great's silver tetradrachms and gold staters, which in turn were replaced by the Roman denarius.
Ionia, Miletos, ca mid-late 6th Century BC, AR Twelfth Stater. I have a group of these as follows, with lion heads both right and left: A. (1.3g),Lion forepart rt., head reverted to left/Star ornament in incuse, SG 3532; SNG Cop 944ff.
There are many coins which bear no head at all, and others-the fifth century coins of Syracuse and the staters of Corinth are but two examples-on which the "heads" side is clearly the reverse.
1g of electrum was made into one 'stater' (meaning "Standard"). A 'stater' was worth 168 grains of wheat, or around one month's pay for a soldier.
patterns and experimental pieces; artists' models for medals and coins; bronze, silver (Figure 17), and gold Greek coins, such as the 15-stater gold piece of King Eucratides of Bactria; the earliest Greek coin, ...
New coin types appeared some partly inscribed, by the Regni, Atrebates, Catuvellauni and Cantii and many of these types are again barbarous copies of the Philip stater.
With their maritime power at an end, the Aeginetans began producing a new stater called a Land Tortoise.
This is a Durotriges stater - its the same coin in both images, just placed on the scanbed differently as shown by the black box around each scan.
Among these coins is the golden stater celebrating his triumph in the chariot race in the Olympics in 356 BC - an early example of the use of coins as propaganda.
*GF85 PAMPHYLIA, ASPENDOS. 370-333 BC. AR Stater (11.01). Two wrestlers, FN (backwards N) between, legend in ex./Slinger right with triskles, all in dotted squre. SG-5398ff, SNG Von Aulock-4568. Nice EF, natural edge flaw.. $450 [image] ...
From the March, 1970 issue of the Empire State Numismatic Association's monthly, "The Stater." ...
Any 1877 Indianhead Cent has over 800,000 siblings. No Roman coin does. When 10,000 Miletus 1/12 staters came out of the ground, the price dropped 50% to $50. Find a US Coin with a population of 20,000 and check the price.
Il est curieux de constater que la lyre accostée de deux annelets est plutõt caractéristique des Abrincatui... Ne serait-il pas possible que ce statère soit un "mélange" de Baïocasses et d'Abrincatui, deux peuples mitoyens ?
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