Drachm - Lysimachus Kolophon

Lysimachus struck coins bearing the deified image of Alexander at mints across his expanding domain partly as a political claim — asserting himself as the legitimate heir to Alexander's memory and territory after the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC broke the diadoch coalition and left him controlling much of Asia Minor. Kolophon, an Ionian city with an established mint, came under his direct authority in this period. The gap in Müller's corpus for this piece suggests it was either unknown to him or recorded under a different attribution.