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Hekte
| Issuer | Mytilene |
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| Year | 412 BC - 378 BC |
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| Value | Hekte (14⁄3) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Mytilene |
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| Additional information |
Mytilene's electrum hektes were struck under a long-running civic agreement with Phokaia — the two cities alternating types on a shared weight standard, producing some of the most consistently executed fractional coinage in the Greek world. This particular issue falls within a period of intense political turbulence for Lesbos: the island shifted allegiances repeatedly during the Corinthian War, and Mytilene's relationship with both Sparta and Persia was actively renegotiated across these decades.
Bodenstedt 79 is among the better-documented hekte varieties, referenced consistently across the major corpora without significant attribution disputes.