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Obverse: Janiform female head, wearing the taenia with earring and necklace. Reverse: Head of Athena on the left, wearing a Corinthian helmet in the remains of a hollow square. Cf: SNG France 1126; BMC 10-14; Pozzi 2236. Copy on a small oval blank, porous; well centered on both sides with significant wear, legible and identifiable. Old collection gray patina. MYSIE - Lampsakos Lampsaque, placed at the entrance to the Hellespont, was a Marseille colony. The city experienced a great prosperity in the Hellenistic period. The silver coinage of Lampsaque seems to start in the first half from the 5th century BC, with the Persian stallion as the referent. This coinage continues until the arrival of Alexander the Great in Asia Minor.
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