Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 7 of 10: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Vol. 7 of 10: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People

The leading coin of Greece and the Greek colonies was the stater, so called because founded on a stan dard of weight generally received before the intro duction of coined money. There were double staters, and half, third, and quarter staters, and the stater was equivalent in value to six of the silver pieces called drachmae. The obolus was one-sixth of the drachma, at first struck in silver, in later times in cop er.

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