The coin in the Hunt collection, a gold stater, shows Alexander portrayed with a ram's horn curled around his ear and a diadem wrapped around his head.

The coin is commoner in silver than in gold and this gold stater is expected to sell for around $10,000.

Finally we are shown, among other things a small display of Celtic tokens, rather than coins or mites, which seem to have taken their inspiration from the gold stater hence status symbol? of Philip 11 of Macedon (382-358 BC).

There also existed a "gold stater", but it was only minted in some places, and was mainly an accounting unit worth 20-28 drachms depending on place and time, the Athenian unit being worth 20 drachmas.

One of the few coins minted for ancient Egypt is the gold stater for Nectanebo II, reign 360 to 343 BC, 30th dynasty.

The reverse of the gold stater shows a horse reared up on its hind legs.

It was also based on the observations of a previous find in Alton, Hampshire in 1996, when Dr Roger Bland and John Orna-Ornstein of the British Museum suggested a gold stater would be worth around £1,000 when minted.

Possibly the oldest known gold coin in Britain was found here, a gold stater of the mid-2nd century BCE.

There is also in the Paris Collection a isolated gold stater of Attic weight, "beautifully preserved".

They had the value of one gold stater each.