MK-B | Lykien ca. 500-480 v. Chr.

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Lykien ca. 500-480 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 241, BM8/245 The Zagazig Hoard (Egypt)
Obverse	Vorderteil eines Ebers (protome) nach r.
Reverse	Quadratum incusum mit drei rechteckigen Einbuchtungen und zwei sich kreuzenden, erhabenen Linien im Zentrum.
Class/status	Ancient Ruler's issue
Date	ca. 500-480 v. Chr. Classical
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 ; 8,45 g; 21 mm
Production	struck
Secondary treatments	Chop mark
Region	Lykien
Country	Turkey
Publications	H. Dressel - K. Regling, Zwei ägyptische Funde altgriechischer Silbermünzen, ZfN 37, 1927, 131 Nr. 245 Taf. 5 (dieses Stück); SNG Aulock Nr. 4053-4055; M. J. Price - N. Waggoner, Archaic Greek coinage. The Asyut hoard (1975) 99 f. Nr. 749-751 (ca. 500-490 v. Chr.); W. Müseler, Lykische Münzen in europäischen Privatsammlungen (2016) 81 Nr. II,3-II,5 (ca. 500/480 v. Chr.).
Web Portals	http://coinhoards.org/id/igch1645
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1902/709
Vendor (to Museum)	Giovanni Dattari
Find place	Egypt, Zagazig
Object number	18256198
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