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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Kingdom of Thrace| > GS55235
Kingdom of Thrace, Lysimachos, 305 - 281 B.C., Struck in the Name of Alexander the Great
|Kingdom| |of| |Thrace|, |Kingdom| |of| |Thrace,| |Lysimachos,| |305| |-| |281| |B.C.,| |Struck| |in| |the| |Name| |of| |Alexander| |the| |Great|, 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).
GS55235. Silver drachm, Price 1842, Müller 358, SNG Cop 909, gF, Kolophon (near Degirmendere Fev, Turkey) mint, weight 4.254g, maximum diameter 18.7mm, die axis 0o, c. 301 - 297 B.C.; obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left, eagle in extended right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left hand, right leg drawn back, lion-forepart over crescent left, pentagram under throne; SOLD










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