stater
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One who states.
The principal gold coin of ancient Grece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.
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In the last issue of the Cleveland Stater, Native American Heritage month, hosted by The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (ODAMA) and the Native American Student Organization (NASO), was colorfully displayed on the front page.
Three of these coins (with a weight of about 14.1 grams, almost half an ounce) totaled one stater, about one month's pay for a soldier.
The 5th century BC Athenian tetradrachm ("four drachmae") coin was perhaps the most widely used coin in the Greek world prior to the time of Alexander the Great (along with the Corinthian stater ).
The Aeginetic stater was divided into three drachmae of 4.1 grams of silver.
So after the university changes that policy and the change garners high-profile attention in both The Cleveland Stater and The Cauldron, the garage of such intense debate goes unfilled—nay—barely occupied.
Stater reporters share their videos and photographs.