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Hekte
| Issuer | Uncertain Ionian city |
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| Year | 600 BC - 550 BC |
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| Value | Hekte (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Lion sejant to right, jaws open in a roaring pose, the tail arched upward and curled over the back. The figure is rendered in a bold, archaic style characteristic of early Ionian coinage, with the design occupying the full flan. Surface granularity typical of the electrum alloy is visible in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (600 BC - 550 BC) |
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Electrum hektes from uncertain Ionian mints occupy some of the earliest decades of coinage itself — this piece dates to a period when the very conventions of struck money were still being worked out across the Aegean littoral. The attribution remains unresolved despite the SNG von Aulock and Gulbenkian references, which agree on classification but not on civic origin, a problem endemic to early Ionian electrum where die-sharing between cities and the absence of explicit ethnic inscriptions leaves provenance perpetually contested.