Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM1/31 The Beginning of Coinage
Obverse
Adler nach r. fliegend.
Reverse
Quadratisches Incusum mit Aussparung; Binnengliederung: Kreuz und zwei sich in der Mitte kreuzende Linien, die jeweils die Ecken miteinander verbinden.
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 ; 12,23 g; 18-20 mm
Production
struck
Mint
Siphnus
Region
Ägäische Inseln
Country
Greece
Publications
C. M. Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek coins (1976) Nr. 119 (um 540); SNG Kopenhagen Nr. 744 Taf. 16 (6. Jh. v. Chr.).