Bundesprägung mit denselben Typen in Haliartos, Theben, Tanagra, Akraipha, Koroneia und Mykalessos. Auf der Rs. ist dort jeweils der Buchstabe des Stadtnamens im Mittelrund.
Theben
ca. 500-480 v. Chr.
Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM-1/59b The Beginning of Coinage
Obverse
Böotischer Schild.
Reverse
Θ. „Windmühlenincusum“, in der Mitte der erste Buchstabe des Stadtnamens.
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 ; 11,96 g; 19 mm
Production
struck
Mint
Thebes
Region
Böotien
Country
Greece
Publications
Friedländer - von Sallet Nr. 18 (dieses Stück); A. Baldwin Brett, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Catalogue of Greek coins (1955) 134 Nr. 986 Taf. 52 (550-480 v. Chr.); C. M. Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek coins (1976) Nr. 344 (ca. 500 v. Chr.).