MYSIA. Lampsacus. Ca. 412 BC. EL stater (22mm, 15.19 gm). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 3/5, light marks. Forepart of winged horse left, surrounded by grapevine; Ξ below / Quadripartite incuse square, two quadrants partially filled. Baldwin, The Electrum Coinage of Lampsakos p. 9 (this coin) and Pl. I, 12a-k. Babelon, Traité Pl. I, 8, 4. Jameson Coll. I, 1432. SNG von Aulock 1292 (All three identical dies). Strongly struck from fresh dies. From the Paramount Collection. Ex UBS Gold & Numismatics, Auction 56 (28 January 2003), lot 126; Münzen & Medaillen AG Auction (3 December 1965), lot 563; Walter Niggeler Collection, Bank Leu; Strozzi Collection (Galerie Sangiorgi, Auction, 15-22 April 1907), lot 1582 All Lampsacus staters from the 5th century BC are of fine gold, except this series. There is an earlier issue of this series and is usually placed around the time of the Athenian Coinage Decree, ca. 450-440 BC, when all silver coinage of the Delian League was ordered recoined into Athenian owls. This later issue, with the addition of the Ξ control mark, is dated circa 412 BC, based on hoard evidence, to coincide with the revolt of Lampsacus against Athens. The winged horse should be thought of in the same genre as the winged boars, canines, bears and felines seen on the archaic coinage of Asia Minor, and having an origin in eastern mythology, as opposed to being a representation of Pegasus.

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