Thank you for looking at this beautiful example of an ancient Greek electrum coin. It features amazing style and history! This is a great chance to own a piece of history, expand your collection, or give as a gift. All coins are guaranteed authentic for life.
This coin is about 50% gold and with some silver and copper. The value of 1 Hekte was ⅙ Stater. Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals. Its color ranges from pale to bright yellow, depending on the proportions of gold and silver. Electrum was used as early as the third millennium BC in Old Kingdom of Egypt, sometimes as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop ancient Egyptian pyramids and obelisks. It was also used in the making of ancient drinking vessels. The first known metal coins made were of electrum, dating back to the end of the 7th century or the beginning of the 6th century BC.
Obverse: Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
Ancient Greek
Lesbos, Mytilene
Circa 377-326 BC
EL Electrum Hekte
Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo to right
Reverse: Head of a female to right within linear square
Size: 10 mm, 2.5 grams
Reference:
Bodenstedt 95. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG von Aulock 1716
Professional Numismatic Notes: Extremely Fine, highly lustrous
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