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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2336784, member: 44132&quot;]Just received this in the mail yesterday.&nbsp; The portrait is what drew me to the coin in the first place since it is a bit odd.&nbsp; But in researching the coin, I found a lot of interesting information regarding Lysimachus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lysimachus (Greek: Λυσίμαχος, Lysimachos; 360 BCE - 281 BCE) was a Macedonian officer and successor of Alexander the Great, who became a king in 306 BCE, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lysimachus was born in 362/361 BC, the son of the Thessalian Agathocles from Crannon. He was granted citizenship in Macedon and was educated at the court in Pella. During Alexander&#039;s Persian campaigns, he was one of his immediate bodyguards. In 324 BCE, in Susa, he was crowned in recognition for his actions in India. After Alexander’s death in 323 BCE, he was appointed to the government of Thrace as strategos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Domestic troubles embittered the last years of Lysimachus’s life. Amastris his wife and a Persian Queen, had been murdered by her two sons; Lysimachus put them to death. Arsinoe asked the gift of Heraclea, and he granted her request, though he had promised to free the city. Arsinoe conspired against Lysimachus&#039; son with the help of her brother Ptolemy Keraunos; they accused him of conspiring with Seleucus to seize the throne, and he was put to death.</p><p><br /></p><p>This atrocious deed of Lysimachus aroused great indignation, and many of the cities of Asia revolted, with his most trusted friends deserting him. The widow of Agathocles fled to Seleucus, who at once invaded the territory of Lysimachus in Asia. In 281 BCE, Lysimachus crossed the Hellespont into Lydia, and at the decisive Battle of Corupedium was killed. After some days his body was found on the field, protected from birds of prey by his faithful dog. Lysimachus&#039;s body was given over to his son Alexander, by whom it was interred at Lysymachia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]474413[/ATTACH]</p><p>LYSIMACHUS KING OF THRACIA</p><p>AR Drachm</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; Head of Heracles right wearing lionskin headdress</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Zeus seated left, holding eagle on outstretched right hand &amp; sceptre in left, lion forepart &amp; crescent before, pentagram under throne.</p><p>Struck at Colophon, Thrace 301-297 BC</p><p>4.17g, 18mm</p><p>Price L1842[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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