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Tetradrachm - Lysimachus Abydos
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 297 BC - 281 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Athena Nikephoros seated left upon a throne, her body draped, resting her left arm upon a large round shield set upon the ground at her side. She extends her right hand to support a small Nike who faces left and holds a wreath. A long diagonal spear reclines in the background behind the throne. To the inner left field, an eagle stands right atop a thunderbolt. The royal legend is arranged in two lines flanking the enthroned figure, with the ethnic in the exergual area. The composition follows the standard Lysimachean reverse type employed across multiple mint cities. |
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| Mint | Abydos |
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Lysimachus never held the title of king until 306 BC, when he and the other surviving generals of Alexander — the Diadochi — declared themselves monarchs in a coordinated act of political theater following Antigonus's own assumption of the title. The Abydos mint, controlling the strategic crossing point between Europe and Asia, was a natural choice for a ruler whose power depended entirely on dominating the Hellespont. These tetradrachms circulated as instruments of that control, paying garrisons and financing a kingdom assembled through decades of brutal coalition warfare that ended only at Corupedium in 281 BC, where Lysimachus fell in battle against Seleucus.