stater

IPA: stˈeɪtɝ

A gold, silver or electrum coin of ancient Greece.
One who states.
A citizen of the United States of America who is a confirmed or lifelong resident of one single state.

Examples of "stater" in Sentences

Coins larger than the drachma also existed; the largest denomination in each weight system is known as a stater.
The stater was a Greek gold coin; its value is usually given at about $5.00, but Grote here makes it considerably less.
They make one with an electric stater, which is not really necessary unless you lack the strength to give the rope a couple quick pulls.
The stater was a unit of currency; probably in this case the Corinthian stater, almost equal to two Attic drachmas; see Appendix J, Classical Greek Currency, ©4.
A sicle or shekel of silver, (which was also called a stater,) according to the standard or weight of the sanctuary, which was the most just and exact, was half an ounce of silver, that is, about half a crown of English money.
Peter would find in the mouth of the first fish that took his bait, is more correctly designated by the literal translation "stater," [809] indicating a silver coin equivalent to a shekel, or two didrachms, and therefore the exact amount of the tax for two persons.
We are not told what sort of fish it was in whose mouth Peter found the "stater," a piece of money worth about three shillings, which was exactly enough to give, as the Lord told him, to those who had come to ask for money to meet some expenses belonging to the temple.