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Drachm - Demetrius Poliorcetes In the name of Alexander III, Salamis
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 332 BC - 323 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Translation: Alexander (III, the Great)) |
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| Mint | Salamis Mint |
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Struck at Salamis on Cyprus during the period when Alexander's empire was still being carved out, this issue belongs to a mint that would later become central to the ambitions of Demetrius Poliorcetes himself — who seized Cyprus from Ptolemy I after the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC, a naval victory so decisive it prompted his father Antigonus to assume the royal title. The coin predates all of that by decades, issued under Alexander's living authority.
Price 3140 places this firmly within the Salamis sequence identified by Newell's foundational die study.