Tetradrachm - Lysimachus Lampsacus

Lysimachus struck these tetradrachms at Lampsacus — a strategically vital mint city on the Hellespont — during the period when he was consolidating control over Asia Minor following the fragmentation of Alexander's empire. The Lampsacus mint had already served the Macedonian administration for decades, and Lysimachus exploited that infrastructure aggressively. His kingdom collapsed entirely at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, when Seleucus I defeated and killed him, ending Thracian royal coinage at source. Posthumous issues using identical types continued circulating for generations, which makes attribution of any given specimen to the lifetime issues versus posthumous production a genuinely contested scholarly problem.