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Trite
| Issuer | Uncertain Ionian city |
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| Year | 625 BC - 600 BC |
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| Value | Trite (⅓) |
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| Edge | Plain, irregular |
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| Mintage | ND (625 BC - 600 BC) |
| Additional information |
Among the earliest coined money produced anywhere in the world, these Ionian electrum fractions predate the standardization that Lydian royal coinage would later impose on the region. The issuing authority remains genuinely unresolved — the absence of a civic badge or identifiable type places it in a cluster of anonymous pieces whose attribution scholars have debated since Weidauer's classification in the 1970s.
The natural electrum alloy varies piece to piece, drawn from Pactolus River deposits with no consistent gold-to-silver ratio.