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The stater, as a Greek silver currency, first as ingots, and later as coins, circulated from the 8th century BC to AD 50. The earliest known stamped stater (having the mark of some authority in the form of a picture or words) is an electrum turtle coin, struck at Aegina [2] that dates to about 650 BC. [3]
The Aeginetan standard, based on the coinage issued by Aegina had a stater of 12.4 g, which was divided into a half-stater or drachma of 6.2 g, a quarter-stater of 3.1 g, and twelve obols of 1.0 g each. [2] [1] This was the main trading standard in the Greek world in the Late Archaic period. In the second half of the sixth century BC, the ...
The three most important standards of the ancient Greek monetary system were the Attic standard, based on the Athenian drachma of 4.3 grams (2.8 pennyweights) of silver, the Corinthian standard based on the stater of 8.6 g (5.5 dwt) of silver, that was subdivided into three silver drachmas of 2.9 g (1.9 dwt), and the Aeginetan stater or didrachm of 12.2 g (7.8 dwt), based on a drachma of 6.1 g ...
The Athenian tetradrachm was called owl, [11] the Aeginetic stater was called chelone, the Corinthian stater was called hippos and so on. Each city would mint its own and have them stamped with recognizable symbols of the city , known as badge in numismatics, along with suitable inscriptions, and they would often be referred to either by the ...
Stater; Talonas – Lithuania; Thaler – Germany, Austria, Hungary. Conventionsthaler; Reichsthaler; Vereinsthaler; Threepence – Great Britain. Threepence (Australian) Threepence (British coin) Threepence (Irish coin) Złoty Polish złoty (Poland) The formerly used Artsakh dram, was not used in day-to-day commerce, but was legal tender in ...
According to wage rates from 377 BC, a talent was the value of nine man-years of skilled work. [8] This corresponds to 2340 work days or 11.1 grams (0.36 ozt) of silver per worker per workday. The Attic talent, corresponding with the standard, would change throughout the time of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Period, subsequently ...
The owl of Athena even became the common obverse of the Athenian tetradrachms after 510 BC and according to Philochorus, [12] the Athenian tetradrachm was known as glaux (γλαύξ, little owl) [13] throughout the ancient world and "owl" in present-day numismatics.
A bronze coin of Side, 350-300BC. Obverse; Cortinthian crested Helmeted bust of Athena right, Reverse; Pomegranate fruit. A bronze 11 assaria of Gallienus struck in Side 253-268 AD overstriked to pentassarion.