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Stater
| Issuer | Lampsakos (Mysia) |
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| Year | 387 BC - 334 BC |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and filleted head of Apollo facing left, the deity portrayed in fine archaic-to-classical Greek style with carefully rendered hair bound by a knotted fillet whose ends fall loosely along the neck. The portrait exhibits the high-relief modeling characteristic of Lampsacene gold coinage, with strong facial features and stylized curling locks framing the face. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lampsakos sat on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, and its gold staters circulated across the Greek world during the decades when Persian satrapal authority over the region was at its most financially assertive. The city struck under Persian suzerainty following the King's Peace of 387 BC, which formally returned the Ionian cities — including Lampsakos — to Achaemenid control. That political arrangement lasted until Alexander crossed into Asia Minor in 334 BC, at which point the mint's independent coinage effectively ceased.
The series is extensively catalogued, with the Baldwin and Traité references each recording distinct obverse types sharing the same reverse die groupings — a detail that has made die-linkage study unusually productive for this issue.