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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8194828, member: 87809&quot;]That&#039;s a perfect tetradrachm [USER=17304]@kazuma78[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is mine , less than perfect<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>While both SNG Berry and Meydancikkale place this issue at Byzantion, Marinescu (pp. 25-6) doubts this attribution, noting a strong similarity in portrait style to certain Lampsakos issues. Similarly, Newell also saw a possibility of this issue being the sole lifetime issue at Byzantion, but was not convinced enough to place it there. However, there is consensus that this is a lifetime issue of Lysimachos:</p><p><br /></p><p>28 x 30 mm, 16.534 g</p><p>Byzantion, 306/305 - 281 BC;</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.81459" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.81459" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.81459</a>&nbsp; gives the date as 260 -190 BC, but than it could not be a lifetime issue of Lysimachos<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ref.: Thompson -; Meydancikkale 2705; SNG Berry 407; Müller 316</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Head of the deified Alexander facing r., wearing horn of Ammon. Anepigraphic.</p><p>Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY Athena Nikephoros seated l., left arm resting on shield decorated with a lion&#039;s head, transverse spear in background; monogram ATP to inner left and below Athena&#039;s throne &quot;ΘΕ&quot;, an abbreviation of ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ, &quot;of the Athenians&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lion was his personal device. 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 &#039;s adoption of Persian customs (particularly that he be regarded as a god), had been accused of treason and imprisoned. Lysimachus killed the lion by tearing out its tongue with his bare hands (Justin 15.3).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435344[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435345[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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