MK-B | Lesbos ca. 510-490 v. Chr.

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Lesbos ca. 510-490 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM-1/30 The Beginning of Coinage
Obverse	Zwei Stierköpfe einander gegenüber, dazwischen Baum mit mehreren Zweigen.
Reverse	Quadratum Incusum mit unregelmäßiger Binnengliederung.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 510-490 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.
	Billon ; 11,20 g; 20 mm
Production	struck
Region	Lesbos
Country	Greece
Publications	C. M. Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek coins (1976) Nr. 108 (um 500 v. Chr.); SNG Aulock Nr. 1682 (ca. 550-440 v. Chr.); SNG Aulock Nachtrag II Nr. 7710 (dito); SNG Kopenhagen Nr. 285 (ca. 550-440 v. Chr.); SNG München Nr. 644 (gute Parallele wg. Geäst auf Vs., datiert ca. 500 v. Chr.).
Web Portals	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/lesbos_babelon_1907_607-8
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1873 Fox
previous Owner	Charles Richard Fox
Object number	18203114
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