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Stater

Date

about 400 B.C.

Medium

Silver

Culture

Greek (Elis)

Department

Coins

Institution

Getty Museum

Obverse: Head of Hera in profile, facing to the right. She wears a stephane, or crown, decorated with palmettes and lillies with loose locks of hair falling below. Reverse: a fiery thunderbolt within an elaborate olive wreath. Inscribed flanking the thunderbolt: Ϝ [digamma] and A [alpha], an abbreviation of ϜΑΛΕΙΟΝ, an archaic spelling meaning "of the Eleians." Minted at Olympia in a mint associated with the Temple of Hera, under the authority of Elis.

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