Hekte

Among the earliest struck coins known to survive, these Ionian hektes predate the standardization efforts of Lydia and the Greek poleis that would follow within a generation. The issuing authority remains unresolved — the absence of a civic badge or ethnic has kept attributions shifting between Miletus, Ephesus, and unnamed workshop intermediaries for over a century of scholarship. Weidauer's grouping of 160–161 placed these alongside related types on stylistic grounds rather than any epigraphic evidence.

The Rosen and Kayhan specimens anchor the type's die distribution across two of the more rigorously documented private collections of archaic electrum.