Stater In the name of Lysimachus

Byzantion's posthumous gold staters in the name of Lysimachus — the Macedonian general who seized Thrace after Alexander's death — were struck well over a century after Lysimachus himself died at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC. By the mid-second century, invoking his name carried commercial rather than political weight: these issues circulated as trusted high-value currency precisely because the Lysimachean type had become a recognized gold standard across the Black Sea and Aegean trading networks.

Marinescu 393 places this emission firmly within Byzantion's independent civic coinage before the city fell under increasing Pergamene and later Roman pressure.