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Stater In the name of Lysimachus
| Issuer | Odessos (Thrace) |
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| Year | 250 BC - 200 BC |
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| Reference(s) | AMNG I-I#2121 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY KOI |
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Odessos — modern Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast — was among several Thracian cities that continued striking gold staters in the name of Lysimachus long after his death at Corupedium in 281 BC. This was not nostalgia. Lysimachus had controlled the region and his name carried monetary credibility across the Aegean trade network; cities along the Pontic coast exploited that trust for generations, producing what numismatists classify as posthumous issues. The practice was commercially rational and politically neutral — invoking a dead king made no dynastic claim.
AMNG I-I#2121 places this emission firmly within the Odessos series, distinguished from Lysimacheia and Amphipolis output by subtle die characteristics documented by Pick.