MK-B | Marion ca. 450-400 v. Chr.

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Marion ca. 450-400 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM2/65 The Classical Period
Obverse	Kopf des Apollon mit kurzem Haar und Lorbeerkranz nach r. Darum herum in kyprischen Buchstaben (ba-si-le-o-se Sa-ta-si-o-i-ko).
Reverse	Eine Göttin (Aphrodite) reitet auf einem Stier nach r. Darüber und darunter in kyprischen Buchstaben (ba-si-le-o-se Sa-ta-si-o-i-ko). Das Ganze in quadratum incusum.
Class/status	City
Authority	Stasioikos I
Date	ca. 450-400 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 ; 11,07 g; 21-24 mm; 12 h
Production	struck
Secondary treatments	Graffito Chop mark
Mint	Marium
Region	Cyprus
Country	Cyprus
Publications	BMC Cyprus S. LVII Anm. 7 Taf. 20,4 (dieses Stück, Stasioikos I., 2. Hälfte 5. Jh. v. Chr.); K. Lembke (Hrsg.), Zypern. Insel der Aphrodite. Katalog Hildesheim (2010) 242 f. Nr. 181 (dieses Stück); C. M. Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek Coins (1976) 378 Nr. 1109 (Stasioikos I., ca. 400 v. Chr.).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1900 Imhoof-Blumer
previous Owner	Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer
Object number	18217907
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