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1⁄96 Stater

Issuer Uncertain Ionian city
Year 600 BC - 550 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (600 BC - 550 BC)
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Among the smallest coins ever produced in the ancient world, these fractional electrum pieces from early Ionia predate any standardized monetary authority — they were issued when coinage itself was barely a generation old. The denomination represents a theoretical subdivision of the stater that would have been nearly impossible to weigh accurately with contemporary balance technology, raising genuine scholarly debate about whether pieces this small functioned as currency at all or served some other exchange or ritual purpose.

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