1 Stater

Copper alloy (bronze or brass)

Cast

Triangle

2.50 cm

- cm

- cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
14.11	-	-	Auction Leu 2019	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche

Auction Leu 2020: Weight of 1 Stater (Bronze, 25 mm, 14.11 g), a triangular coin weight with inscribed edges, 1st century AD. CTA / A; on the edges, ЄTOYC - [.]T[.] - KAI HNT. Rev. Blank. Unique and of great interest. Patina stripped, otherwise, very fine.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Incised	Date, Denomination

CΤΑ
Α

ЄTOYC    [.]T[.]   KAI HNT

Στα(τήρ) | α´. || Ἔτους | [δ´ (?)] τ[οῦ] | καὶ ηντ´.

GREEK , ROMAN

FROM 1 TO 200

Year 358 of unkown era = 3[..]?

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Hadad Collection	Feb. 24, 2019	WHW 22

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Auction Leu 2019a	None	1826	None	None
Korshenko 2021	20–22	None	None	None

Auction Leu 2020: This very interesting weight for a stater bears two dates on its edges, of which unfortunately just one - HNT = 358 - is fully readable. We do not know which eras were used, but since both years are larger than 300 (T = 300), and considering the fact that the earliest known eras start in the late 4th century BC, the weight dates to the early Roman Imperial time at the earliest (if 358 is to the Seleukid Era, this would correspond to 46/7 AD). Such a late dating corresponds to the use of the lunate epsilon and sigma, but it also poses a problem as no staters of such a weight circulated in the Mediterranean region in the Roman era. Could it be that the weight was used somewhere in the Levante for autonomous Tyrean shekels, which were being struck well into the 1st century AD and which weighed around 14.0-14.3 g?
See https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/14266/

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