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Stater
| Issuer | Lampsakos |
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| Year | 394 BC - 350 BC |
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| Value | Gold Stater (20) |
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| Obverse description | Youthful male head of Hermes facing left, wearing a broad-brimmed petasos rendered in fine relief. The hair is depicted in soft, naturalistic curls framing the face, with delicate modeling of the facial features characteristic of early 4th-century BCE Greek coinage. The portrait occupies the full field of the flan with no legend or border. |
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| Mintage | ND (394 BC - 350 BC) |
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Lampsakos, positioned at the narrowest crossing of the Hellespont, derived enormous revenue from controlling traffic between the Aegean and the Black Sea. That commercial wealth funded one of the ancient world's most prolific and artistically ambitious electrum and gold coinage programs. The city's staters circulated widely as trade currency across the eastern Mediterranean and into the Persian-controlled interior, accepted on the strength of their consistent weight standard rather than any issuing authority's political reach.
Baldwin La#13d corresponds to a specific obverse die pairing documented in the Vlasto and later Baldwin typologies. The SNG France 1143 specimen provides the closest paralleled example in a major institutional collection.