Egyptian gold stater

Under Teos

Teos introduced the gold stater in order to pay salaries of Greek mercenaries who were at his service.

• Gold stater with the same weight of a
  Athenian
  model, and a papyrus on the right.
• Gold stater as a tetradrachm, with an owl on the left and an olive branch on the right, with the Demotic writing "Teos... Pharaoh".

Under Nectanebo II

Teos' successor Nectanebo II kept this practice, though coining his personal gold staters.

• Gold stater as a daric (about 8.42 grams),
  obverse with a prancing horse on the right,^[1] reverse with the hieroglyphs
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• Small gold stater (about 2.56 grams, diameter 14-15 mm), with a probable picture of a leaping gazelle. Its attribution to Nectanebo II, however, is not confirmed.

• Ptolemaic coinage

Sources

• Ernst Gölitzer, Entstehung und Entwicklung des alexandrinischen Münzwesens von 30 v. Chr. bis zum Ende der julisch-claudischen Dynastie. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2004,
  ISBN 3-05-004089-0
  , p. 6.

External links

• Gold stater/daric of Nectanebo II

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