Tetradrachm - Lysimachus Alexandreia

Lysimachus began striking coins in Alexander's name and with the deified Alexander's image shortly after 297 BC, a calculated political move — he was among the last of the Diadochi to issue posthumous Alexanders, waiting until the moment was strategically useful rather than sentimental. The decision aligned him with the divine Alexander cult at a time when he was consolidating control over Thrace and pressing claims in Asia Minor against Antigonus and later the Seleucids.

Lysimachus was killed at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, and his kingdom effectively died with him — one of the few Successor states that did not survive its founder.