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Hemihekte
| Issuer | Kyzikos |
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| Year | 550 BC - 500 BC |
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| Currency | Electrum Stater (600-330BC) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (550 BC - 500 BC) |
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Kyzikos, the Propontine city that became one of antiquity's most prolific electrum-issuing mints, produced its coinage in a remarkably consistent series spanning roughly two centuries. The city's position controlling trade routes between the Aegean and Black Sea gave its electrum issues — struck from naturally occurring gold-silver alloy sourced largely from the Pactolus river region — a commercial reach extending from Egypt to the Pontic coast. Athenian hoards from the fifth century consistently include Kyzikenoi alongside local silver, evidence of genuine pan-Mediterranean circulation.
The hemihekte represents the smallest practical denomination in this system, a twelfth of the stater.