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| 背面描述 | The reverse, struck by a hand-held punch, presents two deeply recessed incuse squares of markedly unequal size set side by side within the flat field. The larger square occupies the left portion of the reverse and displays a roughly striated or granular interior surface resulting from the punch strike, while the smaller square to the right shows a more regular, deeply impressed cavity with faint striations. This characteristic two-punch incuse type is a diagnostic feature of archaic electrum coinage from uncertain Ionian mints of the early sixth century BC, serving as authentication marks rather than pictorial devices. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| 铸造量 | ND (600 BC - 550 BC) |
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Among the earliest coinage produced anywhere in the world, electrum staters from uncertain Ionian mints belong to a period before civic identity was systematically stamped onto money. The attribution problem is genuine and unresolved — scholars have argued for Miletus, Ephesus, Phocaea, and Samos over decades without consensus, and the absence of legends means typology and metal analysis carry the entire burden of provenance.
The electrum itself was naturally occurring, sourced from the Pactolus river in Lydia, with gold-to-silver ratios varying unpredictably between individual pieces — a known source of fraud anxiety in antiquity that Herodotus directly references.