Hekte

Features

Issuer	Mytilene (Lesbos)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	412 BC - 378 BC
Value	Hekte (⅙)
Currency	Phocaean stater
Composition	Electrum
Weight	2.56 g
Diameter	11 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 556776
References	Bodenstedt# 76 Friedrich Bodenstedt; 1981. Die Elektronmünzen von Phokaia und Mytilene. Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. , HGC 6# 1002 Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , BMC Greek# 59 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). , SNG von Aulock# 7729 Gebr. Mann (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany (17 volumes). , Traité II# 2180 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.

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Obverse

Bearded, and with a luxuriant moustache, archaizing style, head of Dionysos to right, wearing an ivy wreath with a mitra.

Reverse

Head of Kalathiskos (dancer) to right, wearing her identifying kalathos; all in a linear square frame within a shallow incuse square.

Mint

Mytilene, Lesbos, modern-day Mytilene, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (412 BC - 378 BC)							$ 1200	$ 4700

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Nomos AG Auction 35 Lot 400	15 Jun 2025	XF	USD 6320.80 (CHF 5000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Tradart 5, 16 November 1995, 81; Giessener Münzhandlung 69, 18 May 1994, 304
© Nomos AG
	Roma Numismatics Auction XV Lot 180	5 Apr 2018	XF	USD 1073.85 (GBP 800.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	Roma Numismatics Auction XI Lot 383	7 Apr 2016	XF	USD 2684.64 (GBP 2000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	Numismatik Lanz Auction 145 Lot 29	5 Jan 2009	XF	USD 4800.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatik Lanz Auctions
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Nomos AG Auction 28 Lot 1214	22 May 2023	VF	USD 2022.66 (CHF 1600.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Nomos AG
	Künker Auction 376 Lot 4678	18 Oct 2022	VF	USD 1392.83 (EUR 1200.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Hess 251, Lucerne, 7 May 1981, 76
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	CNG Auction 115 Lot 212	16 Sep 2020	VF	USD 1100.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Electronic Auction 473 Lot 95	29 Jul 2020	VF	USD 1800.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Auction 114 Lot 260	13 May 2020	VF	USD 650.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Mail Bid Sale 81 Lot 509	20 May 2009	VF	USD 1375.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.