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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Kingdom of Thrace| > GB81286
Kingdom of Thrace, Lysimachos, 305 - 281 B.C.
|Kingdom| |of| |Thrace|, |Kingdom| |of| |Thrace,| |Lysimachos,| |305| |-| |281| |B.C.|, 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).
GB81286. Bronze AE 19, SNG Cop 1153 - 1154 var. (monogram), Müller 76 ff. var. (monogram), gVF, green patina, tight flan, scratches, Lysimachia (Eksemil, Turkey) mint, weight 5.585g, maximum diameter 19.4mm, die axis 0o, 305 - 281 B.C.; obverse helmeted head of Athena right; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAXOY, lion leaping right, caduceus, AYNI (or similar) monogram (control) and spear head right below; SOLD











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