Lampsakos (BC 394-330) AV Stater - female

ca 330 BC. AV Stater (8.40g). Female head (Aphrodite?) left, wearing laurel of lotus flowers, hair caught up in saccos behind / Forepart of Pegasos right within very shallow incuse square.
Very rare. gVF. Ex Leu 42 (1987), 286 and NAC 27 (2004), 178. From the Waddington and Gillet collections and the duplicates of the BibiothÃ¨que Nationale de France.

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City/Mint name:	Lampsakos
Keywords:	gold / classical
References:	Boston 1602; SNG France 1142; Gulbenkian 696 (this obverse die); BMC pl. 19, 8 (these dies); Baldwin 41b and pl. III, 31 (this coin)
Valuation:	NAC Auc. 48 (10/2008), lot 177 (CHF 19,000 ($16,456) + comm)
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