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The stater ( or ;〔(Merriam-Webster )〕 , literally "weight") was an ancient coin used in various regions of Greece. The term is also used for similar coins, imitating Greek staters, minted elsewhere in ancient Europe. == History == The stater, as a Greek silver currency, first as ingots, and later as coins, circulated from the 8th century BC to 50 AD. 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〔(Coin images )〕 that dates about 700 BC.〔(Ancient coinage of Aegina ). snible.org. Retrieved on 2011-02-10.〕 It is on display at the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris. According to Robin Lane Fox, the stater as a weight unit was borrowed by the Euboean stater weighing 16.8 grams from the Phoenician shekel, which had about the same weight as a stater (7.0 grams) and was also a fiftieth part of a mina.〔Lane Fox, Robin. ''Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer''. P. 94. London: Allen Lane, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7139-9980-8〕 The silver stater minted at Corinth〔Smith, William. ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities''. J. Murray, 1881.〕 of 8.6 grams weight was divided into three silver drachmas of 2.9 grams, but was often linked to the Athenian silver didrachm (2 drachma) coin weighing 8.6 grams.〔Catalogue of Greek coins, A. Baldwin, Boston, 1955〕 In comparison, the Athenian silver tetradrachm was weighing 17.2 grams. Staters were also struck in several Greek city-states such as, Aegina, Aspendos, Delphi, Knossos, Kydonia, many city-states of Ionia, Lampsacus, Megalopolis, Metapontium, Olympia, Phaistos, Poseidonia, Syracuse, Thasos, Thebes and more. 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 drachmas. (The reason being that one gold stater generally weighed roughly 8.5 grams, twice as much as a drachma, while the parity gold: silver, after some variance, was established as 1:10) The use of gold staters in coinage seems mostly of Macedonian origin. The best known types of Greek gold staters are the 28 drachma ''Kyzikenos'' from Cyzicus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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