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cn coin 43831

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CN Type 20594 🔍

Mint
Lampsakos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 520–500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Forepart of winged horse, right.
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Reverse
Design
Quadripartite incuse square.
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Metrology
Denomination
didrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 16.2 mm / Min: 16 mm
Weight
6.80 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: EH,p565.2.Lam

Provenience: 1816 Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London_25_c:78,2

Citation

Wroth, Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia., London 1892 p. 78, nr. 2, pl. 18, pic. 4  ❐

Literature

Brett, The electrum coinage of Lampsakos, New York 1914 p. 54, nr. 1, pl. 5, pic. 1–7 ("The Half-Pegasos Types" - 510 BC or earlier)  ❐

Gaebler, Die Silberprägung von Lampsakos : eine chronologische Studie 12, 1923 p. 1, nr. 10, pl. 1, pic. 10 (Group I; ca. 520/515–500 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 43831, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43831 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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