Ancient Kings Of Thrace, Lysimachus Dichalkon Bronze Coin, Circa 305 BCE To 281 BCE. Greek Drachm, Goddess Athena And Leaping Lion

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Dimensions, Diameter 17 mm, All measurements are approximate. Sold As Pictured. Provenance, Private Collector, Denmark, Acquired By tc&tc Private Collector in NYC 2026.

Kings Of Thrace, King Lysimachus. Standard Circulation Coin, Circa 305 BCE To 281 BCE. Value Of A Dichalkon 1/24 Of A Drachm. Composition, Bronze. Shape Round But Irregular. Hammered. Obverse With Head Of Goddess Athena Facing To The Right, Wearing Crested Attic Helmet. Reverse With Lion Leaping Right; Below, Monogram Left Of A Spearhead. Script: Greek, With Lettering: Βασιλεως Λυσιμαχου, Translation: King Lysimachus. Mint Place: Lysimachia, Thracian Chersonesus. References, SNG Copenhagen 1149-1158. Muller Lysimachus 76. HGC 3.2 1758. GCV 6819

// NOTES: Lysimachos Was One Of Alexander The Great's Personal Bodyguards. Appointed Strategos (General) In Thrace And The Chersonesos After Alexander's Death. He Became One Of The Diadochi Who Were Initially Generals And Governors, But Who Continuously Allied And Warred With Each Other And Eventually Divided The Empire. In 309 BCE, He Founded His Capital Lysimachia In A Commanding Situation On The Neck Connecting The Chersonesos With The Mainland. In 306 BCE, He Followed The Example Of Antigonus In Taking The Title Of King, Ruling Thrace, Asia Minor And Macedonia. In 281 BCE, He Was Killed In Battle Against Seleucus. 

A Story Popular In Roman Times Told That Alexander Punished Lysimachus, For Trying To Help Callisthenes, By Locking Him In A Cage With A Lion. Callisthenes, A Historian Who Criticized Alexander's Adoption Of Persian Customs (Particularly That He Be Regarded As A God), Had Been Accused Of Treason And Imprisoned (Where He Later Died, Possibly From Torture). Lysimachus Killed The Beast By Tearing Out Its Tongue (Justin 15.3). In Plutarch's Life Of Demetrius, Lysimachus Exposes His Scars To Ambassadors “And Told Them Of The Battle He Had Fought With The Beast When Alexander Had Shut Him Up In A Cage With It” (Plutarch Demetr. 27).

// Ancient Numismatics And Collectibles, Ancient Mediterranean History, Iron Age Coinages, Greece, Italy, Antique Bronze Coins, Classic European Antiquities, Small Coins.

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