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Stater In the name of Lysimachus
| Issuer | Byzantion (Thrace) |
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| Year | 150 BC - 120 BC |
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| Weight | 8.53 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Byzantion, modern-day Istanbul, Turkey |
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Byzantion's gold staters in the name of Lysimachus were struck well over a century after the Macedonian king's death at Corupedium in 281 BC — a deliberate act of monetary conservatism by a city that understood the commercial value of a trusted type. The posthumous Lysimachean stater had become the dominant gold currency across the Black Sea trade zone, and Byzantion, controlling the Bosphorus toll, had every economic incentive to keep issuing a recognizable coin regardless of who actually held power.
Marinescu 561 places this emission within a closely studied sequence of Byzantion's civic posthumous issues, distinguishable from regal and other municipal emissions by specific control marks.