Myshemihekte

The hekte was the standard fractional denomination in early Ionian electrum coinage, and the "my-" prefix here designates a forty-eighth of a stater — one of the smallest divisions struck in the archaic period. These tiny pieces were produced before any standardized state authority had fully consolidated the western Anatolian minting tradition, which is precisely why attribution remains uncertain. The natural electrum alloy varied considerably between sources, and some scholars have argued the gold-to-silver ratio in pieces like this one can help narrow the issuing city even when iconography cannot.