Stater - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Amphipolis

Demetrius I earned his epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — through his obsessive deployment of siege machinery, most spectacularly at Rhodes from 305 to 304 BC, where his failure to take the city nevertheless earned him enough renown that the Rhodians sold his abandoned equipment to fund the Colossus. By the time these staters were struck at Amphipolis, his fortunes had reversed dramatically: he had seized the Macedonian throne in 294 BC by murdering Alexander V, but held it for only a few years before his own army defected to Pyrrhus and Lysimachus in 288 BC.

Amphipolis was Macedonia's primary gold-striking mint under his tenure, and this issue falls in the final window of his reign there.