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Æ - Demetrius I Poliorcetes
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 306 BC - 283 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Rough |
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Demetrius I earned the epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — after his elaborate but ultimately failed siege of Rhodes from 305 to 304 BC, during which he deployed the largest siege tower of antiquity, a nine-story structure called the Helepolis. The Rhodians were so impressed by his engineering that they melted down his abandoned siege equipment and used the proceeds to commission the Colossus of Rhodes.
His bronze coinage was struck across a turbulent stretch of Macedonian history: he seized the Macedonian throne in 294 BC after killing Alexander V, only to lose it to Pyrrhus of Epirus and Lysimachus just two years later.