posthumous Alexander III obverse type.  Lysimachus was a Macedonian Cavalry General, who served as a personal bodyguard to Alexander the Great during his conquest of Asia. After his death, he would take Thrace as governor and later most of Asia Minor as King in 305bc. ••• After years of broken alliances and wars. Lysimachus would die in 281bc after engaging his friend and rival Seleucus I Nikator in battle. His wife Arsinoe II would flee to Egypt and live under the protection of her brother King Ptolemy II. Whom she would later marry. ••• This style of Lysimachus gold Stater would be minted for hundreds of years, even after the Mithridatic Wars. To some each style looking cruder and less artistic than the original Lifetime issues. This coin was recently sold to a lover of history and fascination of Greek gold types.