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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Mysia| > |Lampsakos| > GA95210
Lampsakos, Mysia, c. 500 - 450 B.C.
|Lampsakos|, |Lampsakos,| |Mysia,| |c.| |500| |-| |450| |B.C.|, Lampsakos was founded by Greek colonists from Phocaea in the 6th century B.C. Soon afterward it became a main competitor of Miletus, controlling the trade roots in the Dardanelles. During the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., Lampsacus was successively dominated by Lydia, Persia, Athens, and Sparta. Artaxerxes I assigned it to Themistocles with the expectation that the city supply the Persian king with its famous wine. When Lampsacus joined the Delian League after the battle of Mycale in 479 B.C., it paid a tribute of twelve talents, a testimony to its wealth.
GA95210. Silver diobol, Baldwin Lampsakos, group A, type I, pl. V, 8; SNGvA 7390; SNG Cop 184; SNG BnF 1126, EF, well centered, dark toning, a few light marks, reverse die damaged, Lampsakos (Lapseki, Turkey) mint, weight 1.230g, maximum diameter 11.8mm, die axis 180o, c. 500 - 450 B.C.; obverse archaic janiform female heads, each wearing stephane, sharing central earring; reverse archaic head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet, within incuse square; ex Forum (2018); SOLD











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