Stater In the name of Lysimachus

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.