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<strong>THE</strong> <strong>COLLECTOR</strong> SERIES<br />

Standard— (i.) Id ancient Greek numismatic nomen-<br />

clature, the weight to which at different times or in<br />

various localities the current money was adjusted<br />

it was a principle borrowed from Africa and Asia,<br />

which had their Phoenician, Persic, and Perso-Babylonic<br />

standards. The oldest European one was the yEginetic,<br />

which was succeeded by the Euboic or Attic, chiefly<br />

relevant to silver only, as Chalcis and the other<br />

cities of Euboea struck no gold ; the Rhodian, &c,<br />

culminating in the Indian, which was followed in the<br />

later Bactrian and Parthian money, (ii.) A modern<br />

European principle, to which the money of the prin-<br />

cipal states of that continent respectively conformed,<br />

namely, Cologne, Tours, Paris, and London, to which<br />

may be added, although they are not specifically enu-<br />

merated, Venice and Florence, if not Hungary, for<br />

gold weights. But there were also certain subsi-<br />

diary mediaeval systems, such as those of Anjou,<br />

Poitou, &c, which enjoyed a similar reputation and<br />

credit.<br />

Stater, Staiera (standard) — (i.) A gold coin intro-<br />

duced into Macedon in the fourth century B.C., and<br />

subsequently diffused over the greater part of Greece,<br />

besides serving as the model for unskilful imitators in<br />

Western Europe. There were the double stater, the<br />

half, and the quarter, the Macedonian coin being =<br />

twenty drachma', or about twenty-three shillings Eng-<br />

lish money. (ii.) The silver tetradraclnn, of same<br />

standard, is sometimes described as a stater.<br />

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