Statère

The statère (or stater) is the generic name indicating of the currency antiques.

a currency of money of the ancient Greece being worth 2 or 4 Drachma S according to the areas. It is emitted in very many quoted types by different the Greek.
a standard of the currency of gold being worth 20 to 28 drachmas.
the statère was also the name given to gold currencies of similar value (ex: daric of Persian, the alexandres of Macedonia).

The statères of gold or electrum Gallic derive almost all from the same prototype: the gold statère of Philippe II of Macedonia, brought back as a Gaulle by Gallic mercenaries, combatant for Philippe II.

The first tribes to have made rather faithful imitations seem of them to be the Arvernes (Auvergne) and the Helvètes (Swiss). With the passing of years, and of the imitations, the Gallic monetary types deviated more and more of the prototype. The head of Apollo, presents to the avers, becoming increasingly abstracted, and the Bige of the reverse, being transformed gradually into only one horse surrounded by various elements of decomposition of the remainder of the type: the aurige seems to fly to the top of the horses, the wheel is between the legs of the horse.

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Statères of Gallic gold
(Continuation: Stateres of Gallic gold and evolution stylistic)
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