Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus
| Issuer | Byzantion (Thrace) |
|---|---|
| Year | 80 BC - 70 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | 35 mm |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Byzantion, modern-day Istanbul, Turkey |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Byzantion's posthumous tetradrachms in the name of Lysimachus were struck well over two centuries after the man himself died at Corupedium in 281 BC — a sign of how durable his iconographic authority remained as a commercial instrument across the Aegean world. By the late second and early first century BC, several Thracian and Pontic cities were issuing under his name not out of dynastic loyalty but because his coinage type was simply trusted by merchants. Byzantion's position astride the Bosphorus made monetary credibility a practical necessity.