Kyzikos was the dominant source of electrum coinage in the Greek world for roughly two centuries, and its issues — including fractional denominations like this hemihekte — functioned as a near-universal trade currency across the Black Sea and Aegean networks. The city's monopoly on this role was so entrenched that Kyzikene staters were accepted as currency far outside Mysia, quoted by name in Athenian financial records and mercenary contracts.
The Von Fritze corpus, published in 1912, remains the standard reference despite being over a century old and incomplete at the fractional level — the "cf." qualifier here is typical of hektes and smaller, where exact die matches remain unresolved.
Kyzikos was the dominant source of electrum coinage in the Greek world for roughly two centuries, and its issues — including fractional denominations like this hemihekte — functioned as a near-universal trade currency across the Black Sea and Aegean networks. The city's monopoly on this role was so entrenched that Kyzikene staters were accepted as currency far outside Mysia, quoted by name in Athenian financial records and mercenary contracts.
The Von Fritze corpus, published in 1912, remains the standard reference despite being over a century old and incomplete at the fractional level — the "cf." qualifier here is typical of hektes and smaller, where exact die matches remain unresolved.