MK-MR | Aigina ca. 445-431 v. Chr.

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Aigina ca. 445-431 v. Chr.
	Marburg, Archäologisches Seminar der Philipps-Universität Tresor
Inventory no	M336
Obverse	Landschildkröte mit segmentiertem Panzer. Gegenstempel aus kleinen Quadraten im Panzer.
Reverse	Quadratum incusum, durch breite Balken in fünf Segmente geteilt.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 445-431 v. Chr.
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 ; 11,69 g; 23 mm
Production	struck
Mint	Aegina
Region	Attika (Inseln)
Country	Greece
Publications	BMC Attica S. 137 Nr. 155 (ca. 480-431 v. Chr.); Vgl. SNG Copenhagen Bd. 14 Nr. 517 (nach 404 v. Chr. ohne Gegenstempel); Vgl. O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of the Islands. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 6 (Lancaster u. a. 2010) S. 108 Nr. 437 (ohne Gegenstempel, ca. 545/4-430 v. Chr.); K. Sheedy: Aegina, the Cyclades, and Crete, in: William E. Metcalf (Hrsg.), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage, Oxford 2012, S. 109 Abb. 6. 6 (445-431 v. Chr. ohne Gegenstempel).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Object number	ID500
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