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The stater was an ancient coin of Greek
Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
 or Lydia
Lydia

Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkey provinces of Manisa Province and inland Izmir Province....
n origin which circulated from about 700 BC to 50
50

Year 50 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
 AD. It was also heavily used by Celt
Celt

Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
ic tribes.

Original mintings of this coin such as practiced in Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
 valued the stater at a tetradrachm
Greek drachma

Drachma, pl. drachmas or drachmae is the name of:#An ancient currency unit found in many Greek city states and successor states, and in many South-West Asian kingdoms of the Hellenistic era....
 (4 drachms), though issues at other places or times applied the word "stater" to a didrachm
Greek drachma

Drachma, pl. drachmas or drachmae is the name of:#An ancient currency unit found in many Greek city states and successor states, and in many South-West Asian kingdoms of the Hellenistic era....
 (2 drachm) coin.






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The stater was an ancient coin of Greek
Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
 or Lydia
Lydia

Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkey provinces of Manisa Province and inland Izmir Province....
n origin which circulated from about 700 BC to 50
50

Year 50 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
 AD. It was also heavily used by Celt
Celt

Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
ic tribes.

Original mintings of this coin such as practiced in Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
 valued the stater at a tetradrachm
Greek drachma

Drachma, pl. drachmas or drachmae is the name of:#An ancient currency unit found in many Greek city states and successor states, and in many South-West Asian kingdoms of the Hellenistic era....
 (4 drachms), though issues at other places or times applied the word "stater" to a didrachm
Greek drachma

Drachma, pl. drachmas or drachmae is the name of:#An ancient currency unit found in many Greek city states and successor states, and in many South-West Asian kingdoms of the Hellenistic era....
 (2 drachm) coin. The stater was also minted at Corinth
Corinth

Corinth, or Korinth Corinth is now the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Corinthia. The city is surrounded by the coastal townlets of Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site....
. Staters were also struck in some of the Mediterranean islands such as Aegina
Aegina

Aegina is one of the Greek islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 17 miles from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island....
 and Kydonia. For example, one silver coin struck in Kydonia was that of a stater featuring the Minoan
Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 27th century BC to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greece culture became dominant at Minoan sites in Crete....
 goddess Britomartis
Britomartis

Britomartis is among the Minoan goddess figures that passed through the Mycenaeans' culture into classical Greek mythology, with transformations that are unclear in both transferrals....
.

There also existed a "gold stater", but it was only minted in some places, and was mainly an accounting unit worth 20-28 drachms depending on place and time, the Athenian unit being worth 20 drachms. (The reason being that one gold stater generally weighed roughly 8.5 grams, twice as much as a drachm, while the parity gold:silver, after some variance, was established as 1:10) The best known types of gold staters are the 28 drachm Kyzikenos from Cyzicus
Cyzicus

Cyzicus was an ancient town of Mysia in Anatolia, situated in Balikesir Province on the shoreward side of the present peninsula of Kapu-Dagh , which is said to have been originally an island in the Sea of Marmara, and to have been artificially connected with the mainland in historic times....
, and the gold staters minted in Gaul
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 that Gallic chiefs modelled after those of Philip II of Macedonia, which mercenaries brought back West after serving in his armies, or those of Alexander and his successors.

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  • Electrum 1/6 stater (650-600 BCE)