Lampsakos (BC 394-330) AV Stater - female

Circa 394-350 BC. AV Stater (8.39g, 11h). Head of female left, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace / Forepart of Pegasos flying right within shallow incuse square. Good VF, underlying luster. Struck from artistic dies. Extremely rare, one of only three known, the other two in museum collections (the BN and BM). Both the BN and BM specimens are struck from the same die pair. The present coin adds a new reverse die to the corpus.

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Filename:	10000.jpg
City/Mint name:	Lampsakos
Keywords:	gold / classical
References:	Baldwin, Lampsakos 27; SNG France 1156 = TraitÃ© II 2565 (same obv. die); G.F. Hill, â€œGreek coins acquired by the British Museum in 1919,â€ NC 1920, p. 111 and pl. XIV, 6 = Weber 5102 (same obv. die)
Valuation:	CNG Triton X (1/2007), lot 273 ($20,000 + comm)
Photo courtesy of:	Classical Numismatic Group - www.cngcoins.com
Filesize:	58 KiB
Date added:	Nov 24, 2011
Dimensions:	590 x 292 pixels
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