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Hekte
| Issuer | Uncertain Ionian city |
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| Year | 600 BC - 550 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square divided into four recessed compartments of roughly equal size by two perpendicular raised ridges, forming a mill-sail or windmill pattern. The incuse is deeply struck and irregular at the edges, consistent with early archaic hammered coinage technique. No inscription or subsidiary device is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.