obv. Diademed head of the deified Alexander the Great right, with horn of Ammon over his ear rev. Athena enthroned left, holding Nikè and resting left arm on shield, transverse spear resting against her right side, KΛX-monogram in inner left field, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ to right, ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ to left Kalchedon originated as a Megarian colony in 685 BC. The colonists from Megara settled on a site that was viewed in antiquity as so obviously inferior to that visible on the opposite shore of the Bosphorus (with its small settlements of Lygos and Semistra on Seraglio Point), that the 6th-century BC Persian general Megabazus allegedly remarked that Chalcedon′s founders must have been blind. Indeed, Strabo and Plinius relate that the oracle of Apollo told the Athenians and Megarians who founded Byzantium in 657 BC to build their city "opposite to the blind", and that they interpreted "the blind" to mean Kalchedon, the "City of the Blind". Nevertheless, trade thrived in Kalchedon the town flourished and built many temples, including one to Apollo, which had an oracle. Kalchedonia, the territory dependent upon Kalchedon, stretched up the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus at least as far as the temple of Zeus Urius, now the site of Yoros Castle, and may have included the north shore of the Bay of Astacus which extends towards Nicomedia. Important villages in Kalchedonia included Chrysopolis (the modern Üsküdar) and Panteicheion (Pendik). In its early history Kalchedon shared the fortunes of Byzantium. Later, the 6th-century BC Persian satrap Otanes captured it. The city vacillated for a long while between the Lacedaemonian and the Athenian interests. Darius the Great′s bridge of boats, built in 512 BC for his Scythian campaign, extended from Chalcedonia to Thrace. Coinage of Kalchedon started after the city was handed over to Artaxerxes under the terms of the King′s Peace (387/6 BC). Again the city came under Achaemenid Persian domination and coins were minted to the Chian standard (ca. 15,6 gr. to the tetradrachm) and Persian standard (circa 5,3 gr. to the siglos drachm). By 317 BC, Kalchedon was controlled by Antigonos Monophthalmos and after he was killed at the Battle of Ipsos the Kalchedonian territory came under rule of Lysimachos. Circa 130/120 BC the city was incorporated into the Bithinian kingdom under Nikomedes II or Nikomedis III. Kalchedon formed a part of the kingdom of Bithynia, whose king Nicomedes willed Bithynia to the Romans upon his death in 74 BC. The city was partly destroyed by Mithridates. The governor of Bithynia, Cotta, had fled to Kalchedon for safety along with thousands of other Romans. Three thousand of them were killed, sixty ships captured, and four ships destroyed in Mithridates′ assault on the city. This is a particularly appealing lifetime issue of Lysimachos. The deified portrait of Alexander the Great is of exquisite elegant style, beautifully modeled. Extremely rare.
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