Stater In the name of Lysimachus

Kalchedon, positioned at the mouth of the Bosphorus, leveraged its geographic stranglehold on Black Sea trade to maintain an active mint well into the third century. These posthumous staters issued in the name of Lysimachus — the Macedonian general who had died at Corupedium in 281 BC — were a deliberate political currency, associating the issuing city with Macedonian prestige decades after Lysimachus himself was gone. Dozens of cities across the Aegean and Propontis did the same, making attribution to a specific mint dependent almost entirely on control marks and die linkage studies such as Marinescu's corpus.