Hemihekte

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.