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Stater In the name of Lysimachus
| Issuer | Byzantion (Thrace) |
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| Year | 190 BC - 175 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed head of the deified Alexander the Great facing right, his hair rendered in flowing, tousled locks with a prominent anastole above the forehead, and the small horn of Ammon curling behind the ear — a divine attribute linking Alexander to Zeus-Ammon. The portrait is rendered in the fine Hellenistic style characteristic of posthumous issues struck in his name, with strong modeling of the facial features and naturalistic treatment of the hair. No legend appears on the obverse; the field is plain. |
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| Mint | Byzantion, modern-day Istanbul, Turkey |
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Byzantion issued posthumous staters in the name of Lysimachus — the Macedonian general who had died at Corupedium in 281 BC — long after his kingdom had dissolved, exploiting the enduring commercial prestige of his coinage type across Black Sea trade networks. By the second century BC, these civic imitations circulated alongside genuine Lysimachean issues without meaningful commercial distinction. Marinescu's die study documents the Byzantion series as one of the more prolific municipal posthumous issues, running across multiple die pairs through the early Hellenistic period.