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Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen  Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 242, BM-32/021 The Ancient World to the End of the 3rd Cent. AD |
Reverse |
Viergeteiltes Quadratum Incusum, ein Quadrat durch eine Diagonale unterteilt. |
Denomination |
Stater  StaterLiterally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard. |
Publications |
R. Weil, ZfN 28, 1910, 357 Taf. 9,2 (dieses Stück); SNG Kopenhagen Nr. 517 Taf. 13. |
Department |
Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods |