MK-B | Lampsakos 390-380 v. Chr.

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Lampsakos 390-380 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Galleries Altes Museum (temporarily closed) AM2/20 The Classical Period
Obverse	Ein Bogenschütze in phrygischer/persischer Tracht mit langen Hosen und phrygischer Kappe kniet nach r., in der vorgestreckten l. Hand hält er den Bogen.
Reverse	Pegasosvorderteil nach r., das Protomenende geflügelt.
Class/status	City
Date	390-380 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; 14-17 mm; 11 h
Production	struck
Mint	Lampsacus
Region	Mysien
Country	Turkey
Publications	A. Baldwin, An unedited Gold Stater of Lampsakos, ZfN 32, 1920, 1 f. Taf. 1, 1 (dieses Stück); A. Baldwin, Lampsakos: The Gold Staters, Silver and Bronze Coinages, American Journal of Numismatics 53-3, 1924, 20 f. Nr. 6 a Taf. 1, 9 (dieses Stück); R. du Bois-Reymond, Bogen und Bogenschießen auf griechischen Münzen, ZfN 35, 1925, 251 Taf. 13,16 (diese Vs., 390-380 v. Chr.).
Web Portals	http://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_14920
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Accession	1906 Löbbecke
Year of access	1906
previous Owner	Arthur Löbbecke
Object number	18215299
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