Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Stater
| Issuer | Aegina |
|---|---|
| Year | 456 BC - 431 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 12.27 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Aegina |
| Mintage | ND (456 BC - 431 BC) |
| Additional information |
Aegina's staters were the dominant trade currency of the Aegean basin for over a century before this particular issue, and the city paid dearly for that influence. Athens, threatened by Aeginetan commercial reach, forced the island into the Delian League following their naval defeat around 457 BC — and then expelled the entire population in 431 BC at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, resettling Aegina with Athenian colonists. This issue was struck entirely within that compressed, politically terminal window.
The so-called "Aeginetan standard" of roughly 12.3g per stater was adopted across much of the Peloponnese and persisted long after Aegina itself ceased minting.