Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 116 1 Oct 2019
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Lampsacus
Stater circa 330, EL 8.41 g. Female head (Aphrodite ?) l., wearing laurel of lotus flowers, hair caught up in sakkos behind. Rev. Forepart of Pegasus r. within incuse square. BMC 30 and pl. 19, 8 (these dies). Boston 1602. SNG France 1142. Jameson 1445 (this obverse die). Gulbenkian 696 (this obverse die). Baldwin 41 and pl. III, 30 (these dies).
Very rare. Light reddish tone, about extremely fine / extremely fine
Ex Gemini sale VII, 2011, 471.
This stater belongs to what Brett identifies as the terminal issue of gold at Lampsacus. She only tentatively identifies the head on the obverse as Aphrodite wearing a lotus wreath and a sphendone. The reverse depicts the forepart of a winged horse facing right, as the staters had on all but the very earliest issues, on which it faced left. Though this creature is identified generally as the mythological Pegasus, some consider it best to describe it as the protome of a "winged horse" as we have a non-mythological parallel in the protome of a winged boar at Clazomenae and other cities of Asia Minor. We may also be sure that the "winged horse" was a readily identifiable badge of Lampsacus, as these staters bore no ethic, and the variable obverse types made the reverse the only consistent design element of the coinage.
Stater circa 330, EL 8.41 g. Female head (Aphrodite ?) l., wearing laurel of lotus flowers, hair caught up in sakkos behind. Rev. Forepart of Pegasus r. within incuse square. BMC 30 and pl. 19, 8 (these dies). Boston 1602. SNG France 1142. Jameson 1445 (this obverse die). Gulbenkian 696 (this obverse die). Baldwin 41 and pl. III, 30 (these dies).
Very rare. Light reddish tone, about extremely fine / extremely fine
Ex Gemini sale VII, 2011, 471.
This stater belongs to what Brett identifies as the terminal issue of gold at Lampsacus. She only tentatively identifies the head on the obverse as Aphrodite wearing a lotus wreath and a sphendone. The reverse depicts the forepart of a winged horse facing right, as the staters had on all but the very earliest issues, on which it faced left. Though this creature is identified generally as the mythological Pegasus, some consider it best to describe it as the protome of a "winged horse" as we have a non-mythological parallel in the protome of a winged boar at Clazomenae and other cities of Asia Minor. We may also be sure that the "winged horse" was a readily identifiable badge of Lampsacus, as these staters bore no ethic, and the variable obverse types made the reverse the only consistent design element of the coinage.