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Didrachm - Lysimachus
| Issuer | Leukas (Akarnania) |
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| Year | 167 BC - 100 BC |
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| Weight | 8.13 g |
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| Reverse description | Ship's prow facing right, adorned with a laurel wreath draped along its hull, symbolising naval victory and the maritime identity of Leukas. Above the prow, a two-line Greek inscription naming the issuing city and the magistrate Lysimachos; a magistrate's monogram appears in the lower field beneath the prow. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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After the dissolution of the Epirote League by Rome in 167 BC, several Akarnanian cities began issuing coins in the name of Lysimachus — the long-dead Thracian king — as a way of participating in the widely accepted "Lysimachi" coinage that had circulated throughout the Aegean since the early third century. The practice was purely commercial: these posthumous issues traded on the established weight standard and market recognition of the original Lysimachian series, not on any political claim to his memory.
Leukas, positioned on the promontory between the Ionian Sea and the Ambracian Gulf, was well-placed for Adriatic trade. The city identifier distinguishes these pieces from the broader posthumous Lysimachi output.