Demetrius I earned the epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — for his engineering of the siege of Rhodes beginning in 305 BC, deploying the largest siege tower the ancient world had yet seen. These bronze issues belong to his final years as king of Macedonia, a reign he seized in 294 BC by murdering Alexander V. By 288 BC, a coalition between Pyrrhus of Epirus and Lysimachus had stripped him of the kingdom entirely, and he died a prisoner of Seleucus I in 283 BC.
Demetrius I earned the epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — for his engineering of the siege of Rhodes beginning in 305 BC, deploying the largest siege tower the ancient world had yet seen. These bronze issues belong to his final years as king of Macedonia, a reign he seized in 294 BC by murdering Alexander V. By 288 BC, a coalition between Pyrrhus of Epirus and Lysimachus had stripped him of the kingdom entirely, and he died a prisoner of Seleucus I in 283 BC.