Tetradrachm In the name of Lysimachus, Cyzicus

Lysimachus died at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, yet cities across the Aegean continued striking coins in his name for nearly a century afterward. This was not nostalgia — it was commerce. His image carried exceptional monetary credibility throughout the Hellenistic world, and Cyzicus, a prosperous mint city on the Propontis with longstanding commercial ties to the Black Sea trade routes, exploited that credibility well into the second century. The practice was so widespread that distinguishing posthumous civic issues from regal-period strikes remains one of the more contested problems in Hellenistic numismatics.