Athenian stater or standard piece, the Didrachm (2 drachmae), the Drachm (fig.
The earliest electrum stater of Ionia is interesting on account of its fabric only, for it has no type.
Such pieces are probably to be recognised in the nondescript coins of which the electrum stater is an example (No.
This valuable little book bore the title Skandinaverne i de Forenede Stater og Canada, med Indberetninger og Oplysninger fra 200 Skandinaviske Settlementer.
Enander, Borgerkrigen i de Forenede Stater i Nord Amerika (1881); John A.
And she offered Caleb a gold coin, which Caleb did not refuse, because business was business and a well-invested stater brought him still a little nearer to his native land, for which he was longing.
And he added, in a different voice: "Even to your excellencies the charge is only one gold stater a head.
Caleb grinned with flashing teeth to show that he understood and dropped another half-stater into the priest's palm.
The stater of Darius, usually called a daricus, was a gold coin of Persia.
He, being acquitted, retorted by accusing five of the richest of their number of cutting stakes in the ground sacred to Zeus and Alcinous; the legal penalty being a stater for each stake.
And would you be happy if you had three talents of gold in your belly, a talent in your pate, and a stater in either eye?
Some time before that conference the old Free Stater already mentioned obtained several prolonged interviews with the hon.
That old Free Stater complied, and supplied President Krüger with a duplicate separately as well.
The old Free Stater mentioned before expressed the expectation that the present war and trials will tend to check that declension, and in that way prove to have a compensating character for good.
When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin.
A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel temple tax for two people.
The miraculous draught of fishes, and the stater in the fish's mouth?
He was so mad after filthy lucre, that he had not the least scruple in publicly selling letters of office signed by the Emperor, and was never ashamed to stretch out his hand to those who had to do with him for a stater of gold.
None of the inscribed ones appear to be earlier than the sixth century, the oldest being perhaps the electrum stater usually attributed to Halikarnassos, with the name of Phanes(?
The exception was a Free-Stater who spoke English volubly.
But the Free-Stater was not a bit impressed by my rhetoric, and simply said, "Oh, skittles!
These words would be stamped on St Peter's mind by the finding the stater in the fish's mouth; and they would recur to him and bring their proper lesson with them when the right moment came.
The miracle of the stater in the fish's mouth also requires notice.
The miracle of the stater in the fish's mouth (Matth.
This stater or half-shekel was the payment for the Temple service, and we know that this was levied in March.
The silver talent of Darius was worth more than L300 of our money, the silver stater was worth about two shillings.
English being an unpopular language, the big Johannesburger and the little Free Stater exchanged greetings in the Taal.
He offered to each soldier one stater of Kyzikus (or nearly the same as that which they originally received from Cyrus) as pay per month; twice as much to each captain--four times as much to each of the generals.
In addition to this, every citizen furnished a tenth of the produce of his lands, and every Clarotes an AEginetan stater for his master.
This coin appears to be of copper, and yet may be only a stater of very debased electrum 1 AE.
Stater with an effigy adorned with a singular head-dress 1 Silver.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a silver stater in the Cabinet des Médailles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
