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Stater
| Issuer | Uncertain Ionian city |
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| Year | 575 BC |
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| Value | Stater (1) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (-575) |
| Additional information |
The Weidauer 131–132 attribution places this piece among the earliest phase of Greek coinage, predating the adoption of silver as the dominant monetary metal in Ionia. Electrum — the naturally occurring gold-silver alloy found in the riverbeds of Lydia — was the material of first choice precisely because it required no refining to a fixed standard, though its variable composition made trust in the issuing authority essential.
The uncertain civic attribution is genuine, not a cataloging gap. Many early Ionian staters circulated across city boundaries without the kind of identifying inscription that later coinage would carry, making definitive assignment to a single polis effectively impossible.