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cn coin 43987

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CN Type 20557 🔍

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
corn-ear (position: below)
Reverse
Legend
ΛΑΜΨΑ
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Metrology
Denomination
Diobol 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 12 mm / Min: 11.2 mm
Weight
1.26 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: G.4679

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London_310_c:83,41

Literature

Brett, Lampsakos : the gold staters, silver and bronze coinages, New York 1924 p. 54, nr. B1, pl. 6, pic. 21 (Group B; ca. 400-300 BC)  ❐

Gaebler, Die Silberprägung von Lampsakos : eine chronologische Studie 12, 1923 p. 15, nr. 37, pl. 2, pic. 8 (Group III; ca. 464-415 BC)  ❐

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cn coin 43987, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_43987 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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