Æ17 - Trajan ΛΑΜΨΑΚΗΝωΝ

Lampsacus, a Greek foundation on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, had long leveraged its position controlling the strait's passage to maintain outsized civic prestige. Under Trajan, the city struck bronze issues asserting its identity as a Greek polis within the Roman provincial framework — the ethnic legend ΛΑΜΨΑΚΗΝωΝ a deliberate marker of that continuity. The conventus of Adramyteum administered a sprawling stretch of the Mysian coast, and civic bronzes from its constituent cities varied sharply in volume and quality, Lampsacus among the more modestly productive.