Hekte

Mytilene's electrum hektai were struck in a civic coinage tradition that persisted for roughly two centuries, with the city issuing denominations in partnership with neighboring Phokaia under a formal agreement — each city alternating types on a shared weight standard. This particular emission falls within the archaic phase, before that alliance was formalized around 478 BC, placing it among the earliest of the Mytilenean series.

Bodenstedt's 1976 typology remains the authoritative reference for this series, numbering over 130 distinct types.