So-called Lysimachus

Lysimachus (360 BC – 281 BC) was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (i.e. successor) of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus (King) in 306 BC, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon. The historian Justin relates the story that Lysimachus smuggled poison to a person Alexander had condemned to a slow death and was himself thrown to a lion as punishment, but overcame the beast with his bare hands and became one of Alexander's favorites. Some coins issued during Lysimachus's appointment had his image on one side and a lion on the other. This is an Augustan copy (23 BC-AD 14) of an original of the 2nc century BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysimachus