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Drachm - Lysimachus Ephesus
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 294 BC - 287 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Lysimachus#171 Lysimachus#296 , HGC 3.2#1753d , Bement#900 , SNG Berry#444-445 Fitzwilliam#1864 Ashmolean#3745 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Lysimachus struck coinage in the name and image of Alexander the Great as a deliberate political act — asserting himself as the legitimate heir to Alexander's memory and, by extension, his territory. The Ephesus mint was active during Lysimachus's consolidation of Asia Minor, a campaign that culminated in his defeat of Antigonus at Ipsus in 301 BC and his subsequent control of the western Anatolian coast. The drachm denomination served the everyday commerce of a major port city; tetradrachms carried the political message further afield.
Lysimachus was killed at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, and the Ephesus mint passed almost immediately to Seleucid control.