Hekte

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.