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Stater - Lysimachus Ephesus
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 294 BC - 287 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Athena Nikephoros seated left upon a throne, her body draped in chiton and himation, her left arm resting upon a large round shield decorated with a gorgoneion. She holds a Nike (Victory) figure in her extended right hand, who faces left and holds a wreath. A transverse spear leans diagonally in the background behind the figure. To the inner left field, the ethnic monogram ΕΦ (for Ephesus) flanks a bee symbol, serving as a mint mark. The reverse legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ (of King Lysimachus) runs along the right and left outer fields respectively. |
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| Mint | Ephesus |
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Lysimachus struck these gold staters not as straightforward royal coinage but as a calculated political maneuver — by adopting the image of the deified Alexander, he positioned himself as the legitimate heir to Macedonian power across the Aegean world. The Ephesus mint was central to this program, sitting at the crossroads of his Anatolian territories seized after Ipsus in 301 BC. The series continued until his death at Corupedium in 281 BC, after which successor rulers and cities went on striking coins in his name for generations — a posthumous output that now complicates precise attribution of any single issue to his lifetime.