Syrian wars and the beginning of Lysimachus – type staters at Tomis
Syrian wars and the beginning of Lysimachus – type staters at Tomis

Summary/Abstract: The authors discuss several third century BC Lysimachus-type staters from Tomis, Four were struck before the introduction of the trident in the exergue, with city ethnics or TO (linked by a common obverse die) and secondary signs or N. Four belong to another series, with the ethnic under the throne and decorated trident in the exergue (monograms or AI). On the reverse dies of both series Athena’s spear may be present or absent, a pattern repeated at Mesambria, Odessos and Byzantium. The shift in power in the Black Sea between the Second and Third Syrian Wars, from a Seleucid to a Ptolemaic hegemony, could explain the transition from Alexander-type to Lysimachus-type staters in the entire region, until the rule of Antiochus Hierax.

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