Known as a stater or Croeseid, the coin represents a key turning point in the history of financial systems: the invention of the gold standard. Croesus ruled over the kingdom of Lydia, the western ...

The 44 gold coins bearing the inscription of AD40 British Celtic King Cunobelin were discovered in Bunnik, near Utrecht, by amateur archaeologists. The “stater” coins were found at less than ...

Inscriptions on Iron Age coins are the first evidence of writing in Britain.This gold stater coin was one of 5294 British Iron Age and Roman coins excavated at a Late Iron Age shrine near Hallaton ...

It boggles the mind to contemplate what mankind has crafted in metal between the coin and the computer!

Stater Bros. Markets has laid off 63 clerks, blaming inflation and President Trump's tariffs for the company's economic struggles. CEO Pete Van Helden stated that retail prices have increased by ...

But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-and-silver alloy that often has bits of other metals in it. Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight ...