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Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus, Byzantion
| Issuer | Byzantion |
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| Year | 275 BC - 260 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Byzantion's posthumous tetradrachms in the name of Lysimachus belong to a wave of civic coinages issued after his death at Corupedium in 281 BC, when several cities across Thrace and Asia Minor adopted his image as a commercially trusted type rather than any expression of political loyalty. By the 270s, the type had become effectively a trade currency — its wide recognition in Black Sea commerce made it more useful than issuing under a city's own authority alone. Byzantion's position controlling the Bosphorus crossing gave it particular reason to mint a coin its trading partners would accept without question.