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Lampsakos (BC 394-350) AV Stater262 viewsca 394-350 BC. AV Stater (8.38g, 17mm). Laureate head of Hekate left, wearing earring, korumbos in hair / Forepart of Pegasos flying right. Rare. Double strike on obv., aEF.
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Lampsakos (BC 390-330) Trihemiobol187 viewsca 390-330 BC. AR Trihemiobol (1.12g). Female double-head, wearing earring / Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet, moon to right, ΛΑΜ-ΨΑ. Very rare. VF. Ex. Auc. Aufhauser 5 (1988), lot 82.
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Lampsakos (BC 500-450) EL Stater292 viewsca 450 BC. EL Stater (15.35g). Forepart of winged horse left, surrounded by a grapevine / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, a few edge splits. Rare.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 23131 viewsca 190-85 BC. AE23 (7.46g). Head of Priapos right / Forepart of winged horse right, ΛΑΜΨΑ − ΚΗΝΩΝ, palm branch to R. VF.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 1596 viewsca 190-85 BC. AE15 (2.75g). Head of Demeter right, wearing cornwreath / Thunderbolt, ΛΑΜ above, forepart of Pegasos right below. Dark green patina, VF.
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Lampsakos (BC 27- AD 14) AE 16 - Augustus130 viewsAugustus, 27 BC-14 AD. AE16 (3.43g). CΕΒΑCΤΟΥ − ΛΑΜΨΑΚΗ, laureate head right / ΙΕΡΑ − CΥΝΚΛITΤΟC, daped young bust of Senate right. Rare. Brown-green patina, EF.
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Lampsakos (AD 197-217) AE 19 - Caracalla97 viewsCaracalla, 197-217 AD. AE19 (4.74g). Draped, laureate bust right / ΛΑΜΨΑ − ΚΗΝΩΝ, Homonoia standing, head with kalathos to left, cornucopiae in left hand, patera in right, over a burning round altar. VF.
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Lampsakos (AD 197-217) AE 15 - Caracalla205 viewsCaracalla, 197-217 AD. AE15 (2.18g). Draped, laureate bust right / Λ-ΑΜΨΑ-ΚΗΝΩΝ, naked Eros riding dolphin right, holding wreath in right hand. Thick, dark green patina. Good VF.
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Lampsakos (AD 235-238) AE 24 - Max Thrax168 viewsMaximinus I Thrax, 235-238 AD. AE24 (9.94g). Laureate, draped bust right / LAMY - AKHNWN, bearded ithypallic Priapos left, standing on base, holding thyrsos in left hand and cup in right. Rare. Thick, olive-green patina, VF.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 20139 viewsca 190-85 BC. AE20 (4.95g). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΛΑΜ, kithara, forepart of Pegasos in field to left. Dark green patina, gVF/VF. Rare. Joy coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 350-250) AE 20139 views4th-3rd cent BC. AE20 (7.72g). ΛΑΜ, laureate female head right, wearing earring / ΨΑ, forepart of Pegasos right, uncertain symbol below. Dark green glossy patina, aEF. Rare. Good style. Gutknecht coll.; ex Freedman coll. and CNG Triton V (New York, 2002), lot 437.
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Lampsakos (BC 350-250) AE 19118 views4th-3rd cent BC. AE19 (7.24g). ΛΑΜ, laureate female head right, wearing earring, within dotted circle / ΨΑ, forepart of Pegasos right, ear below. Olive-green patina, VF. Rare. Gutknecht coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 300-200) AE 16123 views3rd cent BC. AE16 (2.70g). Laureate head of Zeus right / ΛΑ−Μ−ΨΑ, Forepart of Pegasos right, dolphin below. Dark brown patina, gVF. Gutknecht coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 300-200) AE 12126 views3rd-2nd cent BC. AE12 (1.32g). Laureate head of Zeus right / ΛΑ−Μ−ΨΑ, Forepart of Pegasos right, dolphin below. Fine olive-green patina, gVF. Scarcer type. Gutknecht coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 21106 viewsca 160-140 BC. AE21 (6.29g). Head of Priapos right within dotted circle / ΛΑΜΨΑ/ΚΗΝΩΝ, Forepart of winged horse right. Black patina, gVF/VF. Rare. Gutknecht coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 13109 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE13 (2.09g). ΛΑ-Μ, Kerykeion (caduceus) within olive wreath / Ψ-Α, Pegasos right, dolphin? below. Light green patina, EF/gVF. Rare. Gutknecht coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 390-330) Trihemiobol156 viewsca 390-330 BC. AR Trihemiobol (1.16g). Female double-head, wearing earring / Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet, ΛΑΜΨΑ. VF.
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Lampsakos (BC 350-250) Obol137 views4th-3rd cent BC. AR Obol (12mm, 1.24g). Laureate head of Apollo right / Forepart of Pegasus right; mouse below. Near VF, toned. Scarce. The mouse is probably a symbol of Apollo Sminthos.
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Lampsakos (AD 193-211) AE 26 - Septimius Severus252 viewsSeptimius Severus, 193-211 AD. AE26 (13.00g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Ithyphallic herm of Priapos, holding thyrsus and cantharus, facing left within distyle temple; eagle in pediment, garlanded altar with uncertain figure below, flanked by amphorae. VF, thick green patina. The cult of Priapus, the god of regeneration and fecundity, was centered on Lampsacus, where he supposedly was born of Aphrodite and Dionysus. This apparently unpublished bronze of Septimius Severus presents the most detailed surviving depiction of the temple of Priapus at Lampsakos. Wagner Coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 45) AE 23 - Julius Caesar220 viewsJulius Caesar, ca 45 BC. AE23 (9.76g). Laureate head of Caesar right / Priest plowing right with two oxen. Near VF, green patina.
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Lampsakos (BC 500-450) Tetrobol2 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Tetrobol (11mm, 2.58g). Forepart of a bridled Pegasos left / Quadripartite incuse square. Near VF, porous. Very rare.
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Lampsakos (BC 350-250) Trihemiobol155 views4th cent BC. AR Trihemiobol (1.95g, 14mm). Laureate head of Apollo right / ΛAM; Pegasos right; below, monogram. Minor edge damage, very fine.
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Lampsakos (BC 500-450) Tetrobol157 viewsca 510-480 BC. AR Tetrobol (2.11g). Forepart of winged horse right / Rough incuse square. Good VF. Rare.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 20111 viewsca 2nd-1st cent BC. AE20 (6.24g). Head of Priapos right / Forepart of winged horse right, ΛΑΜΨΑ − ΚΗΝΩΝ, star to right. VF, high relief obverse, a little rough, especially the reverse, green patina.
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Lampsakos (BC 370) AV Stater417 viewsca 370 BC. AV Stater (8.35g), Persic standard. Half length figure of Demeter, wearing girdled chiton and himation, rising left from earth, holding three ears of grain; behind left shoulder, two ears of grain and vine bearing two bunches of grapes / Forepart of winged horse right with curved wing. Good VF. Extremely rare, only two known specimens, this being the only one in private hands. Ex Gillet Coll.; Weber Coll., 5096.
Following the example and standard of the Persic daric, Lampsakos was the first Greek city to make regular issues of gold coinage which enjoyed an international circulation from Sicily to the Black Sea. As at Kyzikos, the quality of engraving was very high, and types changed frequently: about forty types were produced in a period of about sixty years, one of the most interesting of which is the highly original rendering of Demeter Chthonia rising from the ground. Chthonic deities were those whose powers came from the earth. An important aspect of Demeter celebrated in the Eleusinian Mysteries was that she was venerated as an earth-goddess who symbolised the annual cycle of death and rebirth in nature, especially the grain harvest.
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Lampsakos (BC 356) AV Stater - Artabazos668 viewsArtabazos, Satrap of Daskylion. ca 356 BC. AV Stater (8.45g). Head of Artabazos left, wearing a Persian tiara tied with a diadem / Forepart of Pegasos right. Good VF, light roughness on the obverse. Very rare, only six recorded examples, four of which are in museum collections. Ex Leu 30 (4/1982), lot 167; Von Aulock Collection, 7395; Monnaies et Medailles XIX (6/1959), lot 475; Muenzen und Medaillen XIII (6/1954), lot 1159.
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Lampsakos (BC 470-450) Drachm250 viewsca 470-450 BC. AR Drachm (5.64g). Janiform female head, wearing necklace and circular earring / Head of Athena left, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with wreath, within incuse square. Good VF, toned, granular surfaces, reverse die break. Rare early janiform head type from Lampsakos.
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Lampsakos (BC 500-450) EL Stater227 viewsca 450 BC. EL Stater (15.22g). Forepart of winged horse left, surrounded by a grapevine / Quadripartite incuse square. VF, a few edge splits. Rare.
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Lampsakos (AD 117-138) AE 23 - Hadrian192 viewsHadrian, 117-138 AD. AE23 (5.16g). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Diademed bust of Priapos right. VF, green patina.
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Lampsakos (BC 394-350) AV Stater229 viewsca 394-350 BC. AV Stater (8.56g, 4h). Laureate head of Zeus left; lotus flower behind / Forepart of Pegasos right in shallow incuse. Good VF. Rare.
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Lampsakos (BC 394-350) AV Stater220 viewsca 394-350 BC. AV Stater (8.38g, 3h). Head of a Maenad left, hair flying, wearing ivy wreath and diadem, triple-pendant earring, and necklace / Forepart of Pegasos right in shallow incuse. Good VF, a few minor marks.
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Lampsakos (BC 356) AV Stater - Artabazos268 viewsArtabazos, Satrap of Daskylion, ca 356 BC. AV Stater (8.46g, 3h). Head of Artabazos left, wearing a Persian tiara tied with a diadem / Forepart of Pegasos right in shallow incuse. Good VF, a few light scratches. Extremely rare, only six examples recorded, four of which are in museum collections.
Traditionally, this stater has been assigned to the satrap Orontes, based on the similarity of its reverse to silver and bronze coins believed to have been struck by him at Lampsakos. Although Orontes did control portions of Mysia, he was in fact subordinate to his kinsman Artabazos who was the true satrap of the entire region of Daskylion, which encompassed Lampsakos at the time this coin was struck. When both Orontes and Artabazos rebelled against the Persian king Artaxerxes III in 357 BC, Artabazos secured Lampsakos through the agency of the hired Athenian mercenary, Chares. When Chares accomplished his mission, Artabazos richly rewarded him in coin, the likely occasion for striking this issue.
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Lampsakos (BC 200-150) AR Tetradrachm162 viewsca 200-150 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.63g, 12h). Promethion, magistrate. Wreathed head of Priapos right / ΛΑΜΨΑ−[Κ]ΗΝΩΝ, Apollo Citharoedus standing right, holding plectrum in right hand, lyre in left arm; monogram to inner left, cult statue of Demeter holding two torches to inner right, ΠΡΟΜΗΘΙΩΝΟΣ [Τ]ΟΥ ΛΑΜΠΩΝΟΣ below. Good VF, toned, a few obverse die breaks, overstruck but undertype not readily identifiable. Rare.
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Lampsakos (BC 394-350) AV Stater51 viewsca 394-350 BC. AV Stater (8.36g, 12h). Head of Hera right, wearing stephane; bow and quiver to left / Forepart of Pegasos right in incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references. Good VF, a few tick marks on obverse. Extremely rare, the finest of two known (see Numismatica Ars Classica 18, lot 200, for the other). Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 23 (3/2002), lot 1244.
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Lampsakos (BC 27-AD 14) AE 16 - Augustus49 viewsAugustus, 27 BC-14 AD. AE16 (2.66 gm, 12h). Laureate head right / Ithyphallic Priapos standing left. VF.
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Lampsakos (BC 500-450) EL 1/6 Stater36 viewsca 500-450 BC. EL Hekte - 1/6 Stater (2.26g). Forepart of Pegasos right / Quadripartite incuse square. Good VF, lightly toned. Extremely rare and apparently unpublished in standard references.
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Lampsakos (BC 27-AD 14) AE 16 - Augustus127 viewsAugustus, 27 BC-14 AD. AE16 (2.49g, 6h). Laureate head right; lituus to right / Priapus standing left. VF, black-green patina with light green overtones. Extremely rare, only five specimens recorded, four of which are in a public collection.
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Lampsakos (BC 500-450) Diobol31 viewsca 500-450 BC. AR Diobol(?) (1.28g). Forepart of Pegasos left, displaying both wings / Quadripartite incuse square of swastika pattern. VF, toned, porous, traces of find patina. Apparently unpublished.
Issues with a Pegasos forepart and incuse are commonly known at a variety of mints. Argilos in Macedon is one possibility, but all of the known issues only display a single wing on Pegasos. Another, whose incuse style is most similar to this issue, is Corinth. However, these always include the city’s koppa on the obverse, and this coin, which has ample space on its flan, clearly does not. Lampsakos remains the final possibility, and is the most likely. Although the style of the incuse is not typical for the city, the style of Pegasos is most similar, with both wings visible, and the head lowered towards its forelegs.
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Lampsakos (BC 350-250) Hemidrachm30 views4th-3rd century BC. AR Hemidrachm (2.71g, 7h). Laureate head of Zeus right / Helmeted head of Athena right. VF, light porosity. Very rare, unpublished in the standard references.
The reverse type is commonly found on Lampsakos hemidrachms of the 4th century BC, with a janiform head on the obverse (cf. SNG France 1175-81). The obverse type typically occurs on Lampsakos bronzes dated to the 4th-3rd centuries BC (cf. SNG France 1200-1).
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Lampsakos (BC 45) AE 1736 viewsTime of Julius Caesar, ca 45 BC. AE17 (4.23g). C G I L head of Janus; countermark: LAE monogram / Q LVCRET L PONT IIVIR COL DED PR, prow. Very rare. Very fine.
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Lampsakos (BC 45) AE 1646 viewsTime of Julius Caesar, circa 45 BC. AE16 (4.28g). C G I L head of Janus / Q∙ LVCRET L ∙PONT∙ IIVIR [C]OL∙ DED∙ PR∙, prow. Very rare. Good very fine.
Julius Caesar was the probably the founder of a colony at Lampsacus for veterans; maiby a twin foundation with Parium. The colony seems to have disappeared after its occupation by Sextus Pompey. Types made during this short period are traditional Republican. M. Turius was probably a legate of one of the Caesarian proconsuls of Asia.
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Lampsakos (BC 190-85) AE 18115 views190-85 BC. AE18 (3.31g). Head of Priapos right / Kantharos.
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Tenedos (BC 490-480) Didrachm134 viewsca 490-480 BC. Didrachm (8.94g, 9h). Janiform head: bearded male face to left and female face to right, both have archaic, almond-shaped facing eyes and wear a stephane, and share a disc earring with a rosette pattern and a double-curved pendant; necklace of pearls on neck / TENE (retrograde), helmeted and bearded male head left, wearing pearl necklace; all within incuse square. Extremely rare. Lightly toned and of superb late Archaic-early Classical style; a magnificent coin of great beauty. Slightly porous surfaces, nearly EF.
The early coinage of Tenedos is quite complex, and seems to begin in the last quarter of 6th century BC with didrachms that bear a male/female janiform head and a double axe on the reverse. This early coinage seems to have been replaced by a much rarer second coinage, of which the present piece is the finest known. The axe was replaced by the helmeted head of a warrior (assuming the heads on the obverse are divinities, this could be Tenes). The great similarity to issues of Lampsakos probably convinced the Tenedos authorities to return to their earlier double axe reverse type. The dating of this coin is based on similarity in style to late archaic issues of Athens (Starr Group I).
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Lampsakos (BC 340) AV Stater163 viewsca 340 BC. AV Stater (8.47g, 7h). Head of bearded Kabeiros left, wearing laureate pilos / Forepart of Pegasos right. Extremely rare, one of only five known specimens, of which three are in museums. With an obverse of beautiful late classical style, struck in high relief and attractively toned. Reverse struck from the usual worn die, otherwise, extremely fine.
From the collections of C. Gillet, Bank Leu & Muenzen und Medaillen (Kunstfreund), 28 May 1974, 218, R. Jameson and Sir H. Weber, who purchased it from Alischan in Constantinople in 1889.
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Samos (BC 404-394) Tridrachm406 viewsca 404 or 394 BC. AR Tridrachm or Double Siglos (11.29g, 12h). The infant Herakles, nude but for a baldric over his left shoulder, kneeling to right on ground line, strangling a serpent with each hand, ΣΥΝ / Lion's mask facing, ΣΑ below; all within circular incuse. Extremely rare. Toned EF. From the collections of C. Gillet, 1138, R. Jameson, and the Reverend H.V. Elliott, SWH 2/1908, purchased in Asia Minor 1818-1819.
This rare coin was struck to celebrate an alliance (syn = synmachikon = a coin of allies) between cities in western Asia Minor (Byzantion, Ephesos, Iasos, Knidos, Kyzikos, Lampsakos, Rhodes and Samos), which all used the common type of infant Herakles/snakes on obv with rev bearing normal city badge. It was thought that this alliance came about in 394 after the defeat of the Spartan fleet, but Karweise, Lysander as Herakliskos Drakonopnigon ('Herakles the snake-strangler'), NC 1980, has made a good case for it having taken place 10 years earlier, when the cities threw off Athenian domination with the help of the Spartan Lysander. In many ways this seems a better choice, but hoard evidence is inconclusive.
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Lampsakos (BC 27-AD 14) AE 15 - Augustus108 viewsAugustus, 27 BC-14 AD. AE15 (3.07g, 12h). Laureate head right / Ithyphallic Priapus standing left. VF, green patina. Very rare. Ex. Wagner Coll.
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Lampsakos (BC 470-450) Drachm213 viewsca 470-450 BC. AR Drachm (4.65g, 3h). Janiform female head wearing diadem and earring, within dotted circle / Helmeted head of Athena left, kerykeion (caduceus) to right, within incuse square. Rare. Good very fine. Ex Muenzen und Medaillen 79 (2/1994), lot 314.
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Lampsakos (BC 394-350) AV Stater246 viewsca 394-350 BC. AV Stater (8.51g). Laureate head of Zeus right, lotus flower behind at base of neck / Forepart right of curl-winged Pegasos in shallow incuse. Rare and of the best style! About Extremely Fine/ Choice Very Fine.
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Lampsakos (AD 253-260) AE 24 - Valerian I132 viewsValerian I, 253-260 AD. AE24 (6.53g, 3h). Daphnos, magistrate. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Ithyphallic Priapus standing left, holding cantharus and filleted thyrsus; lighted altar to left. VF, brown surfaces with green deposits, minor overall roughness. Ex Wagner Coll.
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Lampsakos (AD 253-260) AE 24 - Valerian I134 viewsValerian I, 253-260 AD. AE24 (6.53g, 3h). Daphnos, magistrate. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Ithyphallic Priapus standing left, holding cantharus and filleted thyrsus; lighted altar to left. VF, brown surfaces with green deposits, minor overall roughness.
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Lampsakos (BC 500-450) Diobol224 viewsca 500 BC. AR Diobol (1.30g). Forepart of Pegasos left / Quadripartite incuse square. Toned, VF.
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Lampsakos (AD 249-251) AE 2167 viewsTrajan Decius, 249-251 AD. AE21 (4.15g). AVT KOI TPAIAN ΔEK[IOC], draped, laureate bust right / ΛANVAKHN / [Ω]N - EΠI AΠOΛΛ[ΩN?] - ETOV, Priapos standing left, draped from hips, showing Ithyphallos, holding Thyrsos left and Kantharos right. Very rare, F+/-VF. Hoeft coll.
ΛAN erroneous for ΛAM, but there are some open questions too: KOI seems to be erroneous for KAI, magistrate AΠOΛΛΩNITOC couldn't be found until now. Priapos was born by Aphrodite in Lampsakos. Therefore Lampsakos was the centre of warshipping of Priapos. Here his depiction was more like Dionysos who was said to be his father.
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Magnesia (AD 138-161) AE 34 - Antoninus Pius41 viewsAntoninus Pius, 138-161 AD. AE34 (26.53g), struck under grammateus L. Dioskurides Gratos Metr. [T AI]ΛIOC KAICAP - ANTΩNEINO[C], laureate head right / EΠI ΔIOCKOVPIΔ[OV] ΓP - MAΓ - NHTΩN, Themistokles, nude to hips, sitting left on throne with lion's-feet, left hand at parazonium hanging at his left side, with right hand holding an oval shield inscribed with (?)EM/(?)AN/OC in three lines set on cippus; right behind him a horse standing right, head turned left. Very rare, F+. Hoeft coll.
This coin was very difficult to interpret because of the depiction of the male figure, nude, with parazonium, very tall upper part of the body, but it suggests Themistokles. There is another rare type of him sacrificing before an altar, where he is similarily depicted. Themistokles is the famous hero of Salamis who had to flee from Athens after an ostrakismos. His former enemy, the Persian king Artaxerxes I, accommodated him and made him satrap of Lampsakos and Magnesia ad Maeandrum due to his merits at Salamis.
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