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Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachos, Byzantion
| Emittent | Byzantion |
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| Jahr | 90 BC - 80 BC |
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| Währung | Drachm |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Diademed head of the deified Alexander III (the Great) facing right, adorned with the horn of Ammon curling behind the ear, identifying the portrait with divine Ammonite iconography. The portrait is rendered in the Hellenistic tradition established by Lysimachos, depicting Alexander with idealized features and flowing hair beneath a royal diadem. The broad, high-relief effigy is characteristic of posthumous civic coinage struck in the name of Lysimachos during the late second to early first century BC. |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Athena Nikephoros seated left upon a throne, her outstretched right hand presenting a small Nike figure and her left hand grasping a long spear resting against her shoulder. A shield is positioned at her side. Beneath the throne, the civic monogram ΒΥ (denoting Byzantion) appears alongside an ornamental trident, the latter being the well-known symbol of the city. A secondary control monogram is placed in the left field. The reverse legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ runs around the composition in the standard posthumous Lysimachid coinage arrangement. |
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By the late second century BC, Byzantion had long abandoned any pretense that these coins honored the historical Lysimachos — the Thracian king had been dead for nearly two centuries. The city used his iconic deified portrait type purely as a trade currency, trusted across the Black Sea and Aegean commercial networks precisely because the type was so widely recognized. This was monetary pragmatism, not commemoration.
The Byzantion civic issues of this period are distinguished from earlier royal and other civic imitations by their magistrate monograms and control marks, the specific combination of which ties individual dies to HGC 3.2#1406.