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Hekte
| Issuer | Phokaia |
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| Year | 625 BC - 522 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Mint | Phokaia (Ionia) |
| Mintage | ND (625 BC - 522 BC) |
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Phokaia was among the earliest Greek poleis to issue electrum coinage, and its hektes circulated far beyond the Aegean littoral — Phokaian merchants were active along routes stretching to the Black Sea, Iberia, and the western Mediterranean long before the city's forced exodus following the Persian conquest of Ionia around 545 BC. Much of the surviving material from this series likely entered the archaeological record through those trading networks rather than local loss.
Bodenstedt 19 belongs to a well-documented sequence within the Phokaian hekte typology established by Emil Bodenstedt's 1981 corpus, still the definitive reference for the series.