Diobol

Lampsakos sat at the narrowest point of the Hellespont, and its mint's prosperity was almost entirely a function of geography — every grain ship moving from the Black Sea to Athens, every Persian satrap paying troops, every Macedonian commander resupplying passed through waters the city controlled. The diobol's two-century production window likely reflects the city's remarkable continuity of commercial importance across successive Achaemenid, Macedonian, and eventually Seleucid overlords, each of whom found it expedient to leave the mint's output largely undisturbed.