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Tetradrachm - Lysimachus In the name of Alexander III, Sardis
| Uitgever | Kings of Thrace |
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| Jaar | 299 BC - 296 BC |
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| Valuta | Drachm |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Youthful bare head of Heracles facing right, surmounted by the scalp of the Nemean lion as headdress, with the beast's gaping jaws framing the hero's forehead and the paws knotted beneath his chin. The portrait is rendered in the vigorous Lysimachean style, with deeply modelled curling locks escaping from beneath the lion skin on either side of the face. The flan is broad and slightly irregular, with no legend on the obverse, consistent with the Alexander-type coinage issued in the name of Alexander III. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Lysimachus began striking coins in Alexander's name rather than his own during the early decades after the Macedonian's death — a deliberate political calculation, not administrative inertia. The Sardis mint had been operating under various Diadochi successors since Alexander's campaigns, and retaining the conqueror's name lent legitimacy that Lysimachus, one of Alexander's bodyguards turned king, still needed in the 290s BC. He would not issue coins bearing his own portrait until around 297–296 BC, making this Sardis emission among the transitional pieces produced just as that shift was occurring.