Hekte

Mytilene and Phokaia operated under a formal agreement — likely dating to the sixth century — that standardized electrum coinage between the two cities, an arrangement unusual enough in the Greek world that it drew comment in antiquity. The Mytilenean hekte series ran for roughly two centuries with remarkable consistency, each issue pairing a new obverse type with a plain incuse reverse, producing what amounts to a long-running catalog of changing civic and religious imagery struck to a tightly controlled weight standard.

Bodenstedt 84 falls in the later phase of the series, which terminates around 326 BC — the coinage appears to end abruptly, possibly connected to Macedonian reorganization of Aegean monetary circulation under Alexander.