Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus

By the mid-second century BC, Lysimachus had been dead for over a century, yet his image remained commercially potent across the Aegean. Byzantion was one of several cities that continued — or revived — his coinage long after his death at Corupedium in 281 BC, exploiting the trust his types commanded in Black Sea trade circuits. These posthumous civic issues functioned essentially as trade currency, their authority resting on a dead king's reputation rather than any living political power.

Marinescu's catalog distinguishes Byzantion's output within this tradition by magistrate names and control marks, placing this piece firmly within a locally administered series rather than a royal mint continuation.