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Hekte
| Issuer | Mytilene |
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| Year | 521 BC - 478 BC |
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| Value | Hekte (14⁄3) |
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| Reverse description | Head of a calf or young bull in left profile, rendered in incuse relief within a shallow square punch, a characteristic technique of early Lesbian electrum coinage. The head is depicted with carefully delineated mane, ear, and muzzle, with a small quadripartite incuse square visible beneath the neck. The reverse design is entirely uninscribed, conforming to the standard archaic Mytilenaean hekte format in which the reverse serves primarily as a countermark to authenticate the flan. |
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| Mint | Mytilene (Lesbos) |
| Mintage | ND (521 BC - 478 BC) |
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