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Tetradrachm - Lysimachus Pergamon
| Issuer | Kings of Thrace |
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| Year | 287 BC - 282 BC |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ |
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| Mint | Pergamon |
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Lysimachus struck tetradrachms bearing the image of Alexander the Great as a deliberate political act — claiming legitimacy as a successor by associating himself with his former commander's divine authority. These Pergamene issues were produced at a mint that Lysimachus controlled only in the final years of his reign, as he consolidated power in western Asia Minor following the defeat and death of Antigonus at Ipsus in 301 BC.
Lysimachus died at Corupedium in 281 BC, fighting Seleucus I, effectively ending his dynasty in a single afternoon. Issues from Pergamon cluster in the narrow window before that collapse.