Description: Mysia, Lampsakos, 350 - 300 BC. AR Diobol. Diademed male head right / Λ-A-M; forepart of Pegasos right, fishing hook below.

Diameter: AR11 mm

Weight: 1,1 g

Grade: aVF/F

Attribution: SNG France 1216ff var. (symbol)

Commentary: rare symbol; some obscuring deposits on reverse; including collector's original card with detailed description and photos

History: Lampsakos was the chief seat of the worship of Priapos, god of animal and vegetable fertility, son of Aphrodite and Dionysus, grotesquely misshapen and equipped with enormous phallus.

Article Number: 010-05-07-41652