Stater - Lysimachus Ephesus

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.