MK-WUE | Aigina 525-475 v. Chr.

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Aigina 525-475 v. Chr.
	Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität vault
Inventory no	Ka 1715 = H 6259
Obverse	Landschildkröte in Aufsicht, mit linearem Punktmuster auf der Mitte des Panzers.
Reverse	Fünfgeteiltes, windmühlenartiges Quadratum Incusum.
Class/status	City
Date	525-475 v. Chr. Archaic
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 ; 12,28 g; 20 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Aegina
Region	Attica (islands)
Country	Greece
Publications	S.R. Milbank, The Coinage of Aegina, ANS NNM 24 (New York 1925), Period IIa; O.D. Hoover, Handbook of the Coins of the Islands, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 6 (Lancaster/London 2010), Nr. 432; SNG Kopenhagen, Nr. 503.
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Object number	ID679
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