Talk:Stater

Gold staters?
The article states that gold staters were only an accounting unit, not minted as coins. If so, does somebody know why the value was variable from city to city, rather than conventional and panhellenic?

Also, the article on Cyzicus (history section) states that the gold staters of that city ware a staple currency until Macedonia came into global power in the mid 4th century... how is that possible if the coins were not actually minted? --Svartalf 18:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

How big is it, how heavy is it? Seems like pretty important information for what is the biggest ---OOPSIE- 13:57, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Take a look at Cosons. They are real gold staters.-

-Codrin.B (talk) 03:30, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I've seen a lot of "staters" in gold that were used in France and GB...perhaps dating to pre Roman times ?, ...any chance the use of the word18:08, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

What would a stater trade for?
Does anyone know what the stater traded for ... for example for what size hole in the ground?

I think all money should be in units of HULs (Hours of Unskilled Labor). We have all been one at least once in our lives, and we all know how big a hole we can dig given a shovel and one hour's time. And that hole would be the same as they could do 5,000 or 10,000 years ago. So if we could convert to denominations of HULs we would have good relative measures ... not like the 1oz of gold or silver nonsense that people think is a standard today ... and even want to call money ... and sound and honest money at that.

WithGLEE (talk) 19:42, 27 August 2017 (UTC)