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Tetradrachm - Lysimachos Sardes
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 297 BC - 287 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ |
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Lysimachos struck these tetradrachms at Sardes after seizing the city from Antigonus Monophthalmus following the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, one of the most consequential carve-ups of Alexander's empire. Sardes was a prestige mint — the old Lydian capital, site of Croesus's legendary treasury — and Lysimachos exploited that association deliberately, using the city's output to project authority across western Asia Minor during his most aggressive decade of territorial expansion.
He was killed at Corupedium in 281 BC, and his kingdom dissolved almost immediately. Coins struck in this narrow Sardian window predate that collapse by less than a decade.