Stater

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.