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Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus
| Issuer | Byzantion (Thrace) |
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| Year | 260 BC - 245 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Mint | Byzantion, modern-day Istanbul, Turkey |
| Mintage | ND (260 BC - 245 BC) |
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Byzantion produced posthumous Alexander-type tetradrachms in the name of Lysimachus well after his death at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, a practice common among successor cities seeking to trade on the dead king's monetary authority. By the mid-third century, such issues functioned largely as trade coinage in the Propontic grain commerce, where Byzantion's control of the Bosphorus strait gave it an outsized role in Black Sea exchange networks.
Marinescu's die study of this series identified significant variation in punch work across the Byzantion issues, placing this specific type firmly within a production phase datable by magistrate inscriptions rather than regnal chronology.