Tetradrachm - Lysimachus Lampsakos

Lysimachus began issuing tetradrachms bearing the deified image of Alexander the Great as a deliberate political act — he had served as one of Alexander's bodyguards and understood the propaganda value of that association better than most of the Diadochi. The Lampsakos mint was among the most prolific in his kingdom, positioned on the Hellespont where it could draw on trade revenues and control coinage flowing between Asia and Europe.

Lysimachus was killed at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, and posthumous issues of this type continued circulating widely for generations — so widely that later mints across the Greek world struck imitations well into the 2nd century BC.