Hekte

Features

Issuer	Mytilene (Lesbos)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	570 BC - 540 BC
Value	Hekte (⅙)
Currency	Phocaean stater
Composition	Electrum
Weight	2.56 g
Diameter	10 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 569782
References	SNG Munich 19# 659 Hans Roland Baldus; 1991. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Staatliche Münzsammlung München / Heft 19. Troas - Lesbos. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany. , Traité II# 2153 Ernest Babelon; 1910. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.2. Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de l'empire des Perses Achéménides, de l'orient sémitique et de l'Asie-mineure aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France.

Obverse

Janiform head, at right a satyr with turned-up nose and long beard, at left a maenad, the hair covered by a saccos.

Reverse

Female head facing right within trapezoid incuse.

Mint

Mytilene, Lesbos, modern-day Mytilene, Greece

Comments

Bodenstedt p. 183, E34, pl. 34, 5 and 50.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (570 BC - 540 BC)

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