Stater

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.