MK-B | Lampsakos ca. 390-350 v. Chr.

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Lampsakos ca. 390-350 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 241, BM-2/20 Ancient Denominations
Obverse	Helle auf einem Widder nach l. reitend.
Reverse	Vorderteil eines geflügelten Pferdes nach l., in leicht vertieftem Quadrat.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 390-350 v. Chr. Classical
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Gold ; 8,42 g; 16 mm; 3 h
Production	struck
Mint	Lampsacus
Region	Mysia
Country	Turkey
Publications	G. K. Jenkins - M. Castro Hipólito, A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek coins II (1989) 74 Nr. 680 Taf. 66 (ca. 400-300 v. Chr.); Friedländer - von Sallet Nr. 212 A.
Web Portals	http://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_14911
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1875 Prokesch-Osten
previous Owner	Count Anton Prokesch von Osten
Object number	18202692
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godparenthood	Fritz Rudolf Künker Certificate (PDF)