Byzantion's gold staters struck in the name of Lysimachus were issued well over a century after that Macedonian king's death at Corupedium in 281 BC — a deliberate act of monetary conservatism by a city that had long operated under his authority and trusted his name to guarantee acceptance across Aegean trade networks. By the mid-second century, such posthumous Lysimachean types were circulating from dozens of mints, making die attribution to Byzantion specifically dependent almost entirely on the distinctive control marks catalogued by Marinescu.
Byzantion's gold staters struck in the name of Lysimachus were issued well over a century after that Macedonian king's death at Corupedium in 281 BC — a deliberate act of monetary conservatism by a city that had long operated under his authority and trusted his name to guarantee acceptance across Aegean trade networks. By the mid-second century, such posthumous Lysimachean types were circulating from dozens of mints, making die attribution to Byzantion specifically dependent almost entirely on the distinctive control marks catalogued by Marinescu.