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Stater
| Issuer | Lampsakos (Mysia) |
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| Year | 387 BC - 334 BC |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head facing left, identified as Kabeiros, wearing a laureate pileus rendered in high relief with finely detailed foliage. The facial features are boldly modelled in the archaic-classical tradition, with strongly defined brow, prominent nose, and flowing beard rendered in naturalistically striated locks. The hair escapes beneath the pileus in undulating waves, conveying vigorous plasticity characteristic of fourth-century BC Mysian engraving. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lampsakos held a privileged position on the Hellespont, controlling traffic through the straits at a moment when Persian satrapal authority and Greek commercial ambition were in constant negotiation. The city's gold stater coinage emerged directly from the terms of the King's Peace of 387 BC, which formalized Persian dominance over the Asiatic Greek cities while paradoxically leaving their minting operations largely intact. The production window closes at 334 BC with Alexander's crossing into Asia, after which Macedonian monetary policy quickly absorbed the region's gold output into a very different imperial framework.