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cn coin 43972

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CN Type 20556 🔍

Mint
Lampsakos 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 464–415 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Female janiform heads wearing taenia and shared earring.
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Symbol
dolphin (position: below)
Reverse
Legend
ΛΑΜΨ
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
1.20 g
Axis
12
Owner

Sammlung Leake, Cambridge, gb

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sotheby 8 & 29.07.1844, 1999, Thomas

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Leake_221

Citation

Leake, Numismata Hellenica : A Catalogue of Greek Coins, London 1854 p. 72, nr. 6  ❐

Baldwin, Lampsakos: The Gold staters, silver and bronze coinages., New York 1924 pl. 6, pic. 14  ❐

British Academy, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : [England] / The British Academy Vol. 4: Fitzwilliam Museum: Leake and general collections, London 1972 nr. 4177, pl. 78, pic. 4177  ❐

Literature

Brett, Lampsakos : the gold staters, silver and bronze coinages, New York 1924 p. 54, nr. B1, pl. 6, pic. 11–14 (Group B (Dated to c. 400-300 BC.))  ❐

Gaebler, Die Silberprägung von Lampsakos : eine chronologische Studie 12, 1923 p. 15, nr. 35.38 (Group III; ca. 464-415 BC (Type 35: dolphin, right; Type 38: dolphin, left.))  ❐

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cn coin 43972, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43972 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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