Stater - Lysimachus Magnesia

Lysimachus struck these gold staters in the name and types of Alexander the Great as a deliberate political claim — he had served as one of Alexander's bodyguards and used the Alexandrine imagery to legitimize his rule over Thrace and western Asia Minor after the partition of the empire. The Magnesia mint was active during the final, increasingly desperate phase of his reign, as he fought to hold territory against Seleucus I. He was killed at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, the last of the major Diadochi to fall in battle.