"gold" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The coin in the Hunt collection, a gold stater, shows Alexander portrayed with a ram's horn curled around his ear and a diadem wrapped around his head.
- The coin is commoner in silver than in gold and this gold stater is expected to sell for around $10,000.
- Finally we are shown, among other things a small display of Celtic tokens, rather than coins or mites, which seem to have taken their inspiration from the gold stater hence status symbol? of Philip 11 of Macedon (382-358 BC).
- There also existed a "gold stater", but it was only minted in some places, and was mainly an accounting unit worth 20-28 drachms depending on place and time, the Athenian unit being worth 20 drachmas.
- One of the few coins minted for ancient Egypt is the gold stater for Nectanebo II, reign 360 to 343 BC, 30th dynasty.
- The reverse of the gold stater shows a horse reared up on its hind legs.
- It was also based on the observations of a previous find in Alton, Hampshire in 1996, when Dr Roger Bland and John Orna-Ornstein of the British Museum suggested a gold stater would be worth around £1,000 when minted.
- Possibly the oldest known gold coin in Britain was found here, a gold stater of the mid-2nd century BCE.
- There is also in the Paris Collection a isolated gold stater of Attic weight, "beautifully preserved".
- They had the value of one gold stater each.
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