MK-B | Aigina ca. 560-540 v. Chr.

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Aigina ca. 560-540 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM-1/26 The Beginning of Coinage
Obverse	Seeschildkröte mit (milesischem?) Löwenkopf als quadratischem Gegenstempel.
Reverse	Incusum aus sechs unregelmässigen, mit einer Schmalseite einander zugeordneten Dreiecken.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 560-540 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 ; 12,17 g; 14-20 mm
Production	struck
Secondary treatments	countermarked
Mint	Aegina
Region	Attica (islands)
Country	Greece
Publications	SNG Kopenhagen Nr. 502-503 (650-550 v. Chr.); C. M. Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek Coins (1976) 44 Nr. 114 Taf. 6 (ca. 550 v. Chr.).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1875 Prokesch-Osten
previous Owner	Count Anton Prokesch von Osten
Object number	18203108
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