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Stater
| Issuer | Mytilene |
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| Year | 350 BC - 250 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG Copenhagen#375, SNG Ashmolean#7751, SNG Munich 1#727, SNG Lockett#2782 |
| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in fine Classical style with detailed hair swept back beneath a laurel wreath. The portrait displays carefully delineated facial features including a straight nose and slightly parted lips, characteristic of 4th-century Lesbian coinage. The flan is slightly irregular, as typical of hammered ancient coinage from this region and period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mytilene, the dominant polis of Lesbos, operated one of the Aegean's more distinctive monetary traditions — producing electrum hektes in parallel series for generations before silver staters became the primary civic issue. This silver coinage emerged as the city navigated the political turbulence following Alexander's campaigns, when many Aegean mints were rationalizing output and aligning with Macedonian monetary standards.
The SNG references here span four major collections, suggesting reasonable survival across institutional holdings — not a rarity by type, but individual die pairs within the series vary considerably in recorded frequency.