MK-B | Aigina ca. 550-500 v. Chr.

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Aigina ca. 550-500 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 241, BM-8/224 The Zagazig Hoard (Egypt)
Obverse	Seeschildkröte mit glatter Schale, der Kopf mit Maul und Auge nach l. gewendet. Tiefer Einhieb.
Reverse	Flach vertieftes Quadrat, darin ein Incusum, das aus zwei größeren und drei kleineren Dreiecken besteht.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 550-500 v. Chr. Archaic
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally 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.
	Silver ; 12,10 g; 21 mm
Production	struck
Secondary treatments	Chop mark
Mint	Aegina
Region	Attika (Inseln)
Country	Greece
Publications	H. Dressel - K. Regling, ZfN 37, 1927, 123 Nr. 224 = IGCH I Nr. 1645.
Web Portals	http://coinhoards.org/id/igch1645
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1902/809
Find place	Egypt, Zagazig
Object number	18201024
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