Original Word: στατήρ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: statér
Pronunciation: stah-TARE
Phonetic Spelling: (stat-air')
KJV: piece of money
NASB: shekel
Word Origin: [from the base of G2746 (καύχησις - Boasting)]

1. a stander (standard of value)
2. (specially), a stater or certain coin

coin, a stater

From the base of kauchesis; a stander (standard of value), i.e. (specially), a stater or certain coin -- piece of money.

see GREEK kauchesis

4715 statḗr – a silver coin worth two didrachma and equivalent to four denarii (a tetradrachma, four drachmae) – the exact amount of the Temple-tax required for two people.

Word Origin
from the same as histémi
Definition
a stater (a coin)
NASB Translation
shekel (1).STRONGS NT 4715: στατήρ

στατήρ, στατηρος, ὁ (from ἵστημι, to place in the scales, weigh out (i. e. 'the weigher' (Vanicek, p. 1126))), a stater, a coin; in the N. T. a silver stater equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, a Jewish shekel (see δίδραχμον): Matthew 17:27.

Matthew 17:27 N-AMS
GRK: αὐτοῦ εὑρήσεις στατῆρα ἐκεῖνον λαβὼν
NAS: you will find a shekel. Take
KJV: thou shalt find a piece of money: that
INT: of it you will find a four-drachma coin that having taken

Strong's Greek 4715
1 Occurrence

στατῆρα — 1 Occ.