Hekte

Mytilene's electrum hektes were struck under a unique arrangement: the city maintained a long-running bimetallic tradition in which electrum served local and regional exchange while silver circulated elsewhere in the Aegean economy. The series spans decades of turbulent Lesbian politics, including the city's shifting allegiances during the Social War of 357–355 BC and its eventual submission to Macedonian authority under Philip II. Bodenstedt's classification of this specific type, number 91 in his 1981 die study, places it firmly in the later portion of the series — post-370 BC by his chronology.