Hekte

Features

Issuer Mytilene (Lesbos)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 478 BC - 455 BC
Value Hekte (14⁄3)
Currency Drachm
Composition Electrum
Weight 2.51 g
Diameter 10.0 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, incuse
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
178695
References Bodenstedt# 29,
Friedrich Bodenstedt; 1981. Die Elektronmünzen von Phokaia und Mytilene. Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen, Germany.
HGC 6# 956
Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 6. Handbook of Coins of the Islands : Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin.

Reverse

Incuse head of bull right.

Mint

Mytilene, Lesbos, modern-day Mytilene, Greece

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (478 BC - 455 BC) 

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