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Stater - Lysimachus Lampsacus
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 297 BC - 281 BC |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Reverse description | Athena Nikephoros seated facing left on a throne, wearing a crested Attic helmet, a chiton, and a himation draped over her lower body. She extends her right hand forward to hold a small winged Nike, who in turn raises a wreath in offering. In her left hand she grasps a long spear, its shaft resting against her shoulder, while a large round shield decorated with a lion's head device rests against her left side. The Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to the right and ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ to the left of the figure identifies the issuing authority as King Lysimachus. A small mint control symbol appears in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lysimachus struck these gold staters from Lampsacus — one of his most productive mints — in his own name but with the deified portrait of Alexander the Great, a calculated political claim that his rule was the true continuation of the Macedonian conquest. After Ipsus in 301 BC stripped Antigonus from the board, Lysimachus controlled a kingdom stretching from Thrace into Asia Minor, and Lampsacus, sitting at the Hellespont, was strategically essential for taxing Black Sea grain traffic. His reign ended abruptly at Corupedium in 281 BC, when Seleucus defeated and killed him — the last of the primary Diadochi to fall in battle.