Known as a stater or ... hammered into the gold staters and one into the silver ones. Soon after Croesus invented modern coinage, the idea was adopted throughout the ancient world.

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Lawrence University & Buerger Coin Colle... Lawrence University & Buerger Coin Collection Gold Stater of Alexander I (Bala) of Syr... Gold Stater of ...

The historical gold stater will be put under the hammer by Stanley Baldwin Auctioneers at their Ancient, British and World Coins Auction next month. And it has now come to be recognised as the ...

This extremely rare gold stater of Athens, depicting Athena ... A few more have turned up but it is still excessively rare. The cities of ancient Greece generally used silver for their coins.

The ancient Egyptians sure loved gold, and it seems they saw human suffering as a small price to pay for the precious metal. New discoveries at a 2,300-year-old gold mine reveal that some workers ...

Crews found evidence of ancient gold mining, processing, and purification. The archaeological discovery has been moved and used to recreate the camp nearly two miles away. The gold buried in the ...