MK-B | Chios ca. 525-494 v. Chr.

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Chios ca. 525-494 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Münzkabinett, Vault
Obverse	Sphinx sitzt nach l. mit erhobenem r. Vorderbein. Zwischen den Beinen ein Hahnenkopf nach l. Das Ganze in einem Kranz.
Reverse	Vertieftes, viergeteiltes Quadratum incusum.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 525-494 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 ; 7,86 g; 17 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Chius
Region	Islands off Ionia
Country	Greece
Publications	H. Dressel, Altgriechischer Münzfund aus Ägypten, ZfN 22, 1900, 239 Nr. 33 Taf. 8,7 (dieses Stück) = IGCH I Nr. 1639; J. Mavrogordato, A Chronological Arrangement of the Coins of Chios, Numismatic Chronicle 1915, 31 Nr. 9 Taf. 1,10 (Period 2, 575?-545 v. Chr., dieses Stück); N. M. M. Hardwick, The Coinage of Chios from the Sixth to the Fourth Century B. C. (1991) 221 Nr. 28 Taf. 1 (Group 3,2, Stater, ca. 525-494 v. Chr., dieses Stück); O. Hoover, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series VI (2010) 256 Nr. 1117 (Stater oder Didrachme, ca. 510-494 v. Chr.).
Web Portals	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/chios_hardwick_1991_chian_525-494
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1899/884
previous Owner	Giovanni Dattari - 1899
Find place	Egypt, Sakha
Object number	18298981
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