Stater

Stater is the name of various coins of antiquity. The stater is considered the most important Greek coin. The name means as much as the one who weighs, thus showing that the earliest function of coins as standardized weights.

The most common Stater coins are influenced by the Attic foot gold coins of Philip II and Alexander the Great of Macedon.

The Greek Stater in ancient coinage

The mite is the smallest unit, which was, however, occasionally split into additional units, up to the Achtelobolus ( Chalkus ).

See also: Ancient Weights and measures ( Antiquity)

Known Stater coins

  • The Attic gold stater, most marked in the 5th century, weighs about 8.6 g
  • The ancient Egyptian gold stater, in the fourth century BC introduced.
  • The Kyzikener Stater, about 16 g in weight, was from so-called electron ( gold and silver mix ) embossed piece.
  • The äginetische Stater is the silver Didrachm of 12.3 g
  • The thasitische silver stater, about 10 g
  • Celtic 1/24 Stater
  • The Daric was coined in the Achaemenid gold coin with 8.42 g

See also: Ancient Weights and measures ( Antiquity)

Aspendos Classical antiquity Greece Philip II of Macedon Greek drachma Attica Thasos
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