1⁄48 Stater

Lesbos operated an unusual electrum coinage system throughout much of the archaic period, with multiple cities on the island sharing a cooperative monetary arrangement — rare in the Greek world. These fractional silver pieces fall outside that better-documented electrum tradition, likely filling a local transactional gap at the smallest denominations. At 5mm, the die-cutter's work on such a flan demands a jeweler's precision, and attribution to a specific polis remains unresolved.