Drachm - Lysimachus Ephesus

Lysimachus minted coins bearing the deified image of Alexander the Great as a deliberate political claim — he had been Alexander's bodyguard and needed to anchor his legitimacy among rival Diadochi who remembered the Macedonian conquests firsthand. The Ephesus mint was strategically critical, sitting at the commercial heart of the Aegean coast and producing coinage that circulated through one of the ancient world's busiest trading networks.

The Armenak reference without a Müller number suggests this variety falls outside the standard die corpus, which narrows attribution to later specialist work on the Ephesian issues specifically.