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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RaceBannon, post: 2022180, member: 25357&quot;]This bronze coin was minted under King Lysimachos of Thrace.&nbsp; One of the most remarkable of the successors of Alexander the Great, Lysimachos was of Thessalian stock and was a body guard of the great Macedonian King during the latter&#039;s campaigns in the east.&nbsp; In the chaotic period following Alexander&#039;s death he was appointed &quot;Strategos&quot; or General of the Army of Thrace, and in 309 BC founded his capital city of Lysimachea where many of his coins were struck.&nbsp; He went on to rule Macedonia and parts of Asia minor along with Thrace.&nbsp; He was killed fighting the Seluecids of Syria at the decisive battle of Corupedium at the age of 80.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thrace was an ancient Greek Kingdom and is a geographic area located in current southeast Europe.&nbsp; As a geographical area, Thrace is bounded by the Balkan mountains on the north Rhodope mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east.&nbsp; The area it comprises today is part of the modern nation states of southeastern Bulgaria (Northern Thrace), northeastern Greece (Western Thrace),&nbsp; and the European part of Turkey (Eastern Thrace).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]366375[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Kingdom of Thrace; Lysimachos: 323-281 BC</b></p><p>Bronze AE 20, 20 mm/4.8 g</p><p>Obv: Head of Alexander the Great in crested Athenian helmet</p><p>Rev: &quot;BASILEUS LYSIMACOU&quot; above and beneath lion leaping right: spear head below</p><p>(Sear 6819; Mueller 113; Forrer/Weber 2731)</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your Kingdom of Thrace, Lysimachos or Lion coins!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]366378[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]366379[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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