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Hekte
| Issuer | Phokaia |
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| Year | 478 BC - 387 BC |
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| Value | Hekte (10⁄3) |
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| Obverse description | Facing left head of Hera, depicted in archaic Greek style, wearing a tall cylindrical kalathos headdress. The goddess's facial features are rendered in the severe style characteristic of early Classical coinage from Ionia. A small seal (phoke), the civic badge of Phokaia, is positioned to the right of the main type, oriented upward, serving as the city's identifying symbol. |
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| Reverse description | A quadripartite incuse square divided into four recessed compartments by a raised cross-shaped ridge, characteristic of the mill-sail or windmill pattern found on early electrum fractional coinage of western Asia Minor. The incuse is deeply impressed and slightly irregular in outline, consistent with hand-struck hammered technique. The surface within the compartments exhibits a granular texture typical of electrum alloy coinage from the Phokaian mint. |
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| Mint | Phokaia |
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