Mysia, Lampsakos Obol Ca. 500-450 BC (No reserve price)

Mysia, Lampsakos.
Ca. 500-450 BC.
Obol (Silver, 10.8 mm, 0.66 g).

Obv: Janiform female head, wearing double taenia and a single earring.
Rev: Head of Athena to left, wearing crestless Corinthian helmet; all within incuse square.

Reference: SNG Paris types 1129-31.

Lampsakos stood on the Asian shore of the Hellespont, along the sea route linking the Aegean with the Black Sea. Renowned for its wine, the city combined agricultural wealth with a strategic maritime position. Around 500 BC it lay under Persian rule, but joined the Ionian Revolt before being recaptured by the Persian general Daurises in 498/497 BC. Its early coinage belongs to this turbulent period of Greek resistance and imperial reconquest.

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