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Tetradrachm - Lysimachus Parion
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 280 BC - 270 BC |
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| Weight | 17.09 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Athena Nikephoros enthroned to left upon a high-backed throne, wearing helmet and aegis, her left arm resting upon a large round shield set beside her and her right hand extending to present a winged Nike who crowns the royal legend. A long transverse spear rests diagonally behind her with the point directed to lower left. In the outer right field, a thyrsos is placed vertically as a mint control symbol. The exergue bears a monogram of the letters ΔΡ, identifying the mint of Parion. The reverse legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ ('of King Lysimachus') is disposed in two lines flanking the enthroned goddess. |
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Lysimachus died at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, fighting Seleucus I, which ended Thracian dynastic coinage in his own name — yet mints across the Aegean continued striking tetradrachms with his image for generations afterward. The Parion mint, on the southern Propontis coast, was among those that issued posthumous coinage, leveraging the dead king's image for its commercial credibility across trade routes into Asia Minor.
These posthumous issues can be distinguished from lifetime strikes by subtle stylistic conventions particular to each mint's engravers.