Stater
Stater is a term used in ancient numismatics to denote a standard unit of weight and the corresponding coin minted to that standard in the Greek world and its surroundings from roughly the 7th to the 1st centuries BCE. The word derives from the Greek statêrion, meaning “standard” or “set weight.” A stater was a larger denomination, typically struck in silver, and it played a central role in facilitating larger transactions and inter-city trade within the Greek world.
The exact weight and value of a stater varied by city-state. In many regions a stater weighed
Geographically, staters were produced by numerous Greek cities and later Hellenistic kingdoms, including areas such as
In modern scholarship, stater refers to this class of larger silver coins and the weight standard from