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Tetradrachm - Lysimachos Pergamon
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 287 BC - 282 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (287 BC - 282 BC) |
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Lysimachos, one of Alexander's bodyguards turned Successor king, began striking tetradrachms bearing Alexander's deified image as a deliberate political claim — that he alone held the true inheritance of the Macedonian empire. The Pergamon mint became active in his final years, operating under the control of his garrison commander Philetairos, who would ultimately betray him by switching allegiance to Seleukos I shortly before Lysimachos was killed at the Battle of Korupedion in 281 BC.
Philetairos then used the same Lysimachean type to legitimize his own nascent dynasty — the Attalids — continuing the issue long after the king who authorized it was dead.