287/281 BCE
Perinthos 17.08g
Kopf des vergöttlichten Alexander / Athena mit Nike-Statuette auf Cippus und Schild, Beiz. Monogramm und 2 gegenläufige Pferdeprotomen.
Thompson in Festschr. Robinson (1968), -, vgl. 256 HGC 1750q; Thompson, Armenak-Hoard (=ANS MN 31, 198 – Müller, Lysimachus – Arnold-Biucchi in Festschr. Price (1998) Unpublished variant(?)
Lysimachos was a bodyguard of Alexander the Great and proclaimed himself king after the death of Alexander IV.
AR Stater 23mm, 8.88 g, 12h
Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap decorated with laurel branch and star / Aphrodite seated left, holding in extended right hand Nike, who crowns her with wreath, and cradling lotus-tipped scepter in left arm; rose to left.
Callataÿ, Premier, Group 2, 43 (D17/R21 – this coin); RG 5; HGC 7, 356
Ex Sigmund Collection.
Ex CNG March 1999
He married Amastris in 302 BCE, though they later separated and did not have children.
AE Dichalkon 287-281 BCE under Aristagoras
4.23g
Vs.: verschleierter Kopf der Arsinoe II. n. r.
Rs.: Hirsch lagert n. l., Kopf n. r.
SNG v. Aulock 1840; Svoronos 134, 883 Taf. 26, 13
After that, he married Arsinoe II, the daughter of Ptolemy I.
circa 290s-283/2 BCE Adramyteion
AE Bronze, 13 mm, 1.90 g, 11 h
Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. AΓA-ΘO Double-bodied owl standing facing.
HGC 3 -. Terin Series 7, 8
Ex Leu
Agathokles was Lysimachos‘ first son with his first wife, Nikaia, daughter of Antipater. He had two cities renamed for him.
Æ 12 mm, 1,51 g
Macedonian helmet right / A beneath wreath.
Cf. Psoma-Terzopoulou-Karadima 2008, pl. LXII 256b-258b; HGC 3.2, –
Agathokles was executed when Arsinoe II convinced Lysimachos he was plotting against him.
AE 9mm. 0.54g
Circa 290-287/1 BCE.
Veiled head of Eurydike to right / Tripod, [Ε]ΥΡΥΔΙΚΕΩΝ to left.
Milne, Autonomous 5; SNG Copenhagen 1105. 0.54g, 9mm, 6h
Ex Nick Collins Collection
Ex Numismatik Lanz München
Eurydike was Lysimachos‘ daughter and sister to Agathokles. She two was executed shortly after Lysimachos executed her husband, Antipater I.