1⁄12 Stater

Teos, the Ionian coastal city best known as the birthplace of the lyric poet Anacreon, maintained a surprisingly active mint for a polis of its size. This fractional gold issue falls within a period when the city was navigating the competing pressures of Persian satrapal authority and Aegean trade networks — small-denomination gold fractions like this served commerce at a level where silver coinage was either too bulky or insufficiently trusted by trading partners.

The twelfthing of a stater is an unusually fine division, suggesting a monetized local economy precise enough to demand it.