MK-B | Laos ca. 510-500 v. Chr.

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Laos ca. 510-500 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM1/71 The Beginning of Coinage
Obverse	Ein menschengesichtiger, bärtiger Stier, der Flussgott Laos, steht nach r. und hat den Kopf zurückgewandt.
Reverse	Ein menschengesichtiger, bärtiger Stier, der Flussgott Laos, steht nach l. und hat den Kopf zurückgewandt. Das Ganze vertieft (inkus).
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 510-500 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 ; 7,95 g; 24 mm; 1 h
Production	struck
Mint	Laus
Region	Bruttium
Country	Italy
Publications	Friedländer - von Sallet Nr. 656 (dieses Stück); C. M. Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek Coins (1976) 365 Nr. 581 Taf. 33 (ca. 500 v. Chr.); N. K. Rutter, Historia Numorum. Italy (2001) 177 Nr. 2270 (ca. 510-500 v. Chr.).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1872/917
Vendor (to Museum)	Carl Timpe
Object number	18215969
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