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Stater - Artabazos
| Issuer | Lampsakos |
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| Year | 356 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head in left profile, identified as the Persian satrap Artabazos, wearing a Persian tiara or soft cap with layered folds rendered in fine relief. The portrait is of high artistic quality, displaying strong, naturalistic facial features including a prominent nose, deeply set eye, and a full, carefully detailed beard with striated locks. The style reflects the transitional Graeco-Persian tradition characteristic of Lampsakene coinage of the mid-fourth century BC. The field is plain and unlettered, with no legend or exergual inscription. The flan is irregular, consistent with hand-struck archaic production. |
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| Reverse description | A forepart of a winged horse (Pegasos) depicted in right profile, rendered in bold relief against a plain field. The creature's muscular neck and chest are finely modelled, with the raised foreleg and open mouth conveying dynamic energy. The large, elaborately detailed wing curves upward to the left, its feathers rendered with careful incised striations in a sweeping arc. The lower body terminates in a scaly or feathered treatment suggesting the hybrid mythological nature of the beast. No legend or inscription appears on the reverse, consistent with the standard type of Lampsakene gold staters of this period. |
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| Mint | Lampsakos |
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