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 Tumaco-Tolita people, who lived in an area rich in natural gold, crafted intricate and delicate metal objects until the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...