Tritetartemorion

Methymna was the second city of Lesbos and a persistent rival to Mytilene, maintaining its own independent coinage even as neighboring poleis consolidated. This fractional denomination — a three-quarter obol — reflects the granular commercial needs of an Aegean port economy where small silver fractions did genuine transactional work rather than serving ceremonial or tributary functions.

At 0.26 g, surviving examples were always vulnerable to loss and are rarely encountered outside major institutional holdings. The SNG Copenhagen specimen remains the standard reference.