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Issuer Lamponeia
Year 400 BC - 300 BC
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Technique Hammered
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (400 BC - 300 BC)
Additional information

Lamponeia was a minor Troad settlement whose civic coinage is among the least documented of the Hellespontine mints. The city appears in ancient sources largely as a territorial reference point rather than a political actor, which makes its independent bronze issues — produced during a period when Persian satrapal authority over the Troad was still contested — genuinely surprising as an assertion of local civic identity.

The SNG Copenhagen specimen remains the most frequently cited parallel for this type.

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