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Drachm - Lysimachus Magnesia
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 299 BC - 296 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Diademed head of the deified Alexander the Great facing right, wearing the horn of Ammon over his ear, rendered in the Hellenistic portrait tradition with finely detailed curling hair. The effigy displays strong, idealized facial features with a prominent brow and slightly parted lips. The lion-scalp headdress attributes associated with Heracles are absent here, replaced by the divine horn alluding to Alexander's claimed descent from Zeus-Ammon. The portrait occupies the full field of the flan with no surrounding legend, as is characteristic of Lysimachean drachm coinage. The die work is bold and well-modeled, reflecting the accomplished engravers active at the Magnesia mint. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on a backless throne, his upper body bare and draped from the waist, holding a long scepter upright in his left hand and extending his right hand toward an eagle perched with wings folded facing left. Beneath the throne, a lion's head or forepart appears as a mint control symbol. A monogram is visible beneath the throne seat, serving as an additional control mark. The vertical Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to the right of Zeus and ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ along the lower field together read 'of King Lysimachus,' following the standard epigraphic formula of Lysimachean royal coinage. The composition closely follows the reverse type established by Alexander the Great's own tetradrachm series. |
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