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Tetradrachm - Lysimachus Lysimacheia
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 297 BC - 281 BC |
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| Weight | 17.14 g |
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| Reverse description | Athena Nikephoros seated left on a throne, wearing a crested Attic helmet, a peplos draped over her lower body, and a bead necklace. She extends her right hand forward to receive a wreath from a Nike perched on her outstretched wrist, while her left hand rests on a large round shield decorated with a gorgoneion. A spear leans against her shoulder. To the lower right, a monogram or mint control mark is visible. The Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to the right and ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ to the left encircles the central type, proclaiming the coin's royal issuer. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Lysimachus struck these tetradrachms from his capital Lysimacheia — the city he founded on the Thracian Chersonese around 309 BC — as part of a deliberate program to project legitimacy across the former Alexandrine world. By placing the deified Alexander on his coinage, Lysimachus was making a political argument, not a commemorative one: he had been Alexander's bodyguard and claimed that proximity as a form of dynastic authority. The coins circulated widely across the Aegean and Black Sea regions, functioning as a commercial and diplomatic currency of some reach.
Lysimachus died at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, struck down by Seleucus I, ending both his reign and the mint's operation under his name.