Stater - Lysimachos Byzantion

Lysimachos died at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, yet his image continued to circulate on gold staters minted by autonomous cities for decades afterward — a rare case of a dead king's portrait serving as a trusted monetary guarantee rather than a political statement. Byzantion was among the most prolific of these posthumous issuers, exploiting the commercial weight of the Lysimachean standard along the Black Sea trade routes.

The Thompson corpus remains the essential reference for attributing these posthumous issues to specific minting cities, distinguishing Byzantion's output by subtle die characteristics that the SNG Copenhagen sequence alone cannot resolve.