1/2 Stater - Lysimachos Kolchis imitation

The Bastarnae occupied a contested zone between the Carpathians and the Black Sea steppe, and their coinage reflects that position exactly — borrowing Lysimachean types that had already been in circulation for over two centuries by the time these imitations were struck. The prototype itself traded on Alexander's image long after both men were dead, a monetary fiction the tribes of the northern Pontic region found persistently useful for cross-cultural exchange.

Kolchis imitations of this type are notoriously difficult to attribute with precision, and the Bastarnae designation relies heavily on find-spot archaeology rather than any textual confirmation of tribal minting authority.