Featured Lampsakos

Thanks! It's a diobol, not a drachm. Came in a large lot of silver fractions from CNG early in the year.

 

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For me, the dioboloi of Lampsakos with Athena and the janiform heads count among the most interesting affordable types of ancient Greek silver coinage.

Mine shows a bit of lamination and a test punch on Athena's helmet, but in my eyes, these flaws are offset by the insect control mark in the field. The catalogues usually describe it as a fly, but it looks more like a cicada to me.


Mysia, Lampsakos, diobol, ca. 400–300 BC. Obv: Janiform female heads. Rev: Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet, ΛΑΜ around, fly right. 10mm, 1.2g. Ref: SNG France 1190; Baldwin 1924, group B, type I,19.

 

Nice one, Bing. I have one of these janiforms from Lampsakos as well, but in bronze.


MYSIA, Lampsakos
AE17. 3.7g, 17mm. MYSIA, Lampsakos, circa 4th - 3rd centuries BC. BMC 51. O: Janiform female head wearing taenia and earring. R: Pegasos forepart right; trident below.

 

Great coins everyone.
Sorry, I have no coins to add.
I do like the coin @dougsmit posted because it differs slightly from the others shown, seen from above & looking down on the busts unlike the others which show it at eye level or looking slightly upward.
Dolphin or not, the Obverse is awesome.
The die engraver had skills for sure.

 

I like that. Cool.

 

Sweet coin Bing! One of the few cities with the Greek letter psi. Makes me question my pronunciation.
Mysia, Lampsacus. AE21. Volusian
Obv: ΑΥΤ Κ ΟΥΙΒΙ ΟΛΟССΙΑΝ. laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Volusian, r.
Rev: ΛΑΝΨΑΚΗΝ. Tyche standing l., holding rudder and cornucopia.

 

AE Lampsakos, Mysia
18 mm, 6.3g

 

I'm the bro and your coin is wearing the red dress!


It even has that dang fantastic Olympic torch

 

I like the Janiform female head coins, but have only this Alexander III drachm from Lampsakos:

Macedon, Alexander III, Drachm, 336-323 BC. AR Drachm (4.22 gm), Lampsakos mint, Struck 323-317 BC.
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin headdress
Rev: ALEXANDROY, Zeus seated left, right leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre; Artemis left with torch beneath throne.
Ref: Price 1379 var. unpublished, as of 2004, variant without symbol in left field. ex CNG 725215.

 

James, Interesting article & nice score on the Janiform diobol ! The coin pictured below is a style copy of the famous tetradrachm of Tenedos, circa 160 BC, AV: 19.95 gm, 29 mm, made by the copyist-forger Slavey Petrov. Instead of the original coin struck in silver, Petrov struck (actually pressed) this coin in pure gold. The figures in the Janiform are Tenes (founder of the island) & Philonome. The reverse depicts the double headed axe of Dionysus, with a bunch of grapes to the left & a figure of Artemis with a stag & torch to the right. This is the 1st coin I won at a CNG auction many years ago.