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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 4416012, member: 44132&quot;]<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Mysia_map_ancient_community.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>Originally known as Pityusa or Pityussa, it was colonized from Phocaea and Miletus. During the 6th and 5th century BC, Lampsakos was successively dominated by Lydia, Persia, Athens, and Sparta; Artaxerxes I assigned it to Themistocles with the expectation that the city supply the Persian king with its famous wine. When Lampsakos joined the Delian League after the battle of Mycale (479 BC), it paid a tribute of twelve talents, a testimony to its wealth; it had a gold coinage in the 4th century, an activity only available to the more prosperous cities.</p><p><br /></p><p>A revolt against the Athenians in 411 BC was put down by force. In 196 BC, the Romans defended the town against Antiochus the Great, and it became an ally of Rome; Cicero and Strabo attest its continuing prosperity under Roman rule. Lampsakos was also notable for its worship of Priapus, who was said to have been born there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lampsakos produced a series of notable historians and philosophers. Charon of Lampsakos (c. 500 BC) composed histories of Persia, Libya, and Ethiopia, and annals of his native . Metrodorus of Lampsakos (the elder) (5th century BC) was a philosopher from the school of Anaxagoras. Strato of Lampsakos (c. 335-c. 269 BC) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the third director of Aristotle&#039;s Lyceum at Athens. Euaeon of Lampsakos was one of Plato&#039;s students. A group of Lampsacenes were in the circle of Epicurus; they included Polyaenus of Lampsakos (c. 340 – 278 BC) a mathematician, the philosophers Idomeneus of Lampsakos, Colotes the satirist and Leonteus of Lampsakos; Batis of Lampsakos the wife of Idomeneus, was the sister of Metrodorus of Lampsakos (the younger), whose elder brother, also a friend of Epicurus, was Timocrates of Lampsakos.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are numerous coins surviving from Lampsakos, but coins with the janiform female heads seem iconic.&nbsp; That being said, here is the newest addition to my coral of coins:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1108216[/ATTACH]</p><p>LAMPSAKOS, MYSIA THRACE</p><p>AR Diobol</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; Janiform female head, in circular earring and necklace</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; Helmeted head of Athena right&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>Struck at Lampsakos, Mysia 390-330 BC</p><p>1.28g, 13mm</p><p>SNG Cop 189 - 192; SNGFrance 1195, SNGvA 1295</p><p><br /></p><p>Share your coins from Lampsakos or Mysia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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