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Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus
| Issuer | Byzantion (Thrace) |
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| Year | 210 BC - 195 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Athena Nikephoros seated left on a throne, wearing helmet and aegis, extending her right hand to hold a winged Nike who crowns the royal legend above; her left arm rests upon a large round shield decorated with a gorgoneion. A transverse spear leans behind the throne. The primary legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ runs around the field. The control mark IΠ appears in the inner left field, and the city ethnic BY is inscribed on the throne, identifying this issue as a civic posthumous striking of Byzantion. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ IΠ BY |
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Byzantion's posthumous tetradrachms in the name of Lysimachus were civic issues, not royal ones — struck long after the Macedonian general's death at Corupedium in 281 BC as a matter of commercial convenience rather than political allegiance. The type was trusted across Aegean trade networks, and port cities like Byzantion exploited that trust deliberately, attaching their own ethnic to a recognizable monetary form that merchants would accept without negotiation.
The Mektepini hoard, from which several die links in this series were established, helps anchor the chronology of this particular emission to the years bracketing Byzantion's conflicts with surrounding Thracian and Bithynian powers in the early second century.