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Tetradrachm - Lysimachos Lysimacheia
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 297 BC - 281 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Athena Nikephoros seated left on a throne, helmeted and draped, holding a small winged Nike in her extended right hand who crowns the royal name; a large round shield adorned with a rosette rests against her left side. The legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ is inscribed vertically to the right and ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ vertically to the left of the central figure. A spear leans behind her, and a monogram appears in the exergue below the throne line. A rosette symbol is visible in the left field as a mint control mark. |
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Lysimachos struck these coins after 297 BC at Lysimacheia, the city he founded on the Thracian Chersonese, partly as a practical mint for his western territories and partly as a deliberate act of dynastic self-promotion. The posthumous portrait of Alexander he chose for the obverse was a calculated political statement — by the 290s, Lysimachos was one of the last surviving Diadochoi, and associating himself with Alexander's image helped legitimize a kingship he had only assumed in 306 BC.
He was killed at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, fighting Seleukos I, ending his dynasty in a single afternoon.