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Hekte
| Issuer | Mytilene |
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| Year | 377 BC - 326 BC |
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| Value | Hekte (14⁄3) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, rendered in fine archaic Greek style. The goddess wears a crested Attic helmet with a prominent rounded bowl and a flowing horsehair crest sweeping to the rear. Delicate facial features are visible in relief, with locks of hair escaping beneath the helmet along the nape of the neck. The flan surface is characteristic of the electrum hekte series issued at Mytilene, with clean high-relief modeling of the portrait. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mytilene and Phocaea operated under a formal agreement — likely dating to the early fifth century — to produce electrum coinage on a shared standard, alternating types on a regular schedule. The Mytilenean hekte series ran for roughly two centuries with remarkable consistency, which is why Bodenstedt's typology remains the definitive reference: the sequence is tight enough to date individual emissions with unusual precision. This particular emission falls within the series' later phase, after Mytilene had weathered both the Athenian-imposed oligarchy of 427 BC and the subsequent turbulence of the Social War.