When Alexander the Great died, he left an enormous empire behind and a power struggle began. His trusted generals, many of whom were childhood friends began to carve out territories, and set up kingdoms of their own. History would remember them as the "Diadochi" or successors. ••• 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 Seleucus I Nikator in the battle of Korupedion.  Generations later a number of mints in the area of the Black Sea restruck some of Lysimachus coin types for their regions use. The reverse features the goddess Athena on her throne, shield at her side, holding the goddess Nike in her hand.