Three Weights of Lampsacus

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Oğuz Tekin, « Three Weights of Lampsacus », Anatolia Antiqua, ID : 10.4000/anatoliaantiqua.296


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Located on the southern coast of the Sea of Marmara near the Dardanelles, Lampsacus (the modern-day Lapseki) was settled by colonists from Phocaea (Foça) and Miletus. Under the control, successively, of Lydia and Persia, Lampsacus paid a tax of 12 talents (approximately 300 kg of silver) to the Delian League established by Athens to counteract the Persian threat. The city also minted gold coins in the 4th century B.C., which was a rarity for Anatolian cities in the Classical and Hellenistic p...

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