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Tetradrachm - Lysimachus Amphipolis
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 288 BC - 281 BC |
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| Weight | 17.07 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (288 BC - 281 BC) |
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Lysimachus minted these tetradrachms at Amphipolis — a strategically vital Macedonian city controlling the lower Strymon — during the final years of his reign, as he fought to consolidate control over Macedonia itself following the defeat and death of Pyrrhus's ally Demetrius Poliorcetes in 285 BC. The posthumous portrait of Alexander he deployed was a deliberate political claim: legitimacy by association, not by blood.
Lysimachus died at Corupedium in 281 BC, defeated by Seleucus I, ending Thracian dynastic coinage abruptly. Amphipolis continued striking posthumous issues in his name for decades afterward.