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Hekte
| Issuer | Kyzikos |
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| Year | 500 BC - 450 BC |
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| Value | Hekte (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | A goat in kneeling pose oriented to the left, rendered in high relief with naturalistic detail characteristic of early Kyzikene coinage. Beneath the goat, a tunny fish facing left serves as the civic badge of Kyzikos, a device recurring consistently across the city's electrum issues. The figures occupy a slightly convex, granular field with no inscriptions or border elements. |
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| Reverse description | A quadripartite incuse square divided into four equal recessed compartments by raised ridges meeting at the center, a hallmark of archaic hammered coinage technique. The incuse is deeply struck and asymmetric in detail, with alternating sunken and slightly raised sections giving a windmill-like appearance. No legend or secondary device is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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