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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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| Weight | 8.49 g |
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| Reverse description | Athena Nikephoros seated left on a throne, wearing a helmet and chiton, her left arm resting on a shield decorated with a gorgoneion set against its rim, her right hand extending forward to receive a small Nike who stands upon it and holds a wreath. A long spear leans diagonally against her left shoulder. The royal legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ runs vertically in the right field, and the Byzantion civic monogram or mintmark ΒΥ appears in the left field. The throne is rendered with architectural detail and a footstool is visible beneath the figure. |
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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.