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Triskeles Sale 30 6 Dec 2019
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Lampsakos was strategically situated on the Hellespont and was famous for producing men of letters and philosophers, including Anaxagoras, who was the first to bring philosophy to Athens. He returned to Lampaskos to escape an Athenian charge of impiety and the citizens of his home city erected an altar to Nous (Mind) and Pistis (Truth) in his honor. These may be the deities represented by the janiform head on this coin.