Hekte

正面描述	A stylized fleur-de-lis ornament (lily-shaped device) occupies the central field of the obverse, rendered in low relief with three upward-pointing petals flanked by curved sepals and a rounded base lobe. The design is characteristic of archaic Ionian decorative vocabulary and is struck on a naturally irregular electrum flan. The surface shows the typical granular texture and gentle convexity of early hammered electrum coinage. No legend or inscription is present.
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铸造量	ND (600 BC - 550 BC)
附加信息	The precise attribution of early Ionian electrum hektes remains one of the more contentious problems in archaic numismatics. Without a controlling authority's name or a known civic symbol to anchor it, pieces like this one circulate through the scholarship assigned tentatively to one city, then another. The natural electrum alloy varied in gold-to-silver ratio depending on the river source — Lydian rivers like the Pactolus produced a different composition than sources further west — and metallurgical analysis has increasingly become the primary tool for narrowing attribution where typology fails.

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