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| STATER | |
| Form: lit. "a standard" coin. | |
| The principal gold coin of Greece. The Attic stater of gold, a gold piece of two gold drachmoe=twenty silver drachmoe,= 13s. 4d., in intrinsic value of silver. To the same standard of currency belonged the Macedonian gold stater first struck by Philip II and Alexander the Great. | |
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| THE PANATHENAIC STADIUM.(Curtius and Kaupert, Atlas of Athens, p. 13.) |
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