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Tetradrachm - Lysimachos Sestos
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 299 BC - 296 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Sestos |
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Lysimachos, one of Alexander's bodyguards-turned-generals, seized Thrace after the partition following Alexander's death in 323 BC and spent the next three decades consolidating a kingdom that stretched from the Hellespont to the Danube. The Sestos mint operated on the European side of the Hellespont — a strategically critical chokepoint — and its output during this narrow window reflects the intense military and financial pressures of the Diadochi wars, particularly the looming conflict with Antigonos Monophthalmos that culminated at Ipsus in 301 BC.
Sestos issues from this period are distinguishable from contemporaneous Lampsakos output by specific control marks catalogued by Müller and refined in Armenak's corpus.