Hekte

Mytilene's electrum hektai were among the last coins in the Greek world to use electrum as a primary monetary metal — a tradition the city maintained stubbornly long after most mints had abandoned the alloy for pure gold or silver. The city struck these in matched obverse-reverse pairs, rotating designs across issues in a scheme that makes attribution to specific decades genuinely difficult without die studies. Bodenstedt's 1976 catalogue remains the foundational reference, numbering 105 types; type 94 falls toward the later sequence, placing it closer to the series' abrupt end when Macedonian economic dominance effectively killed independent Lesbian coinage.