Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus

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.