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Stater - Demetrius I Poliorcetes In the name of Alexander III, Salamis
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 301 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Gold Stater (20) |
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| Mint | Salamis (Cyprus) |
| Mintage | ND (301 BC - 300 BC) |
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Demetrius I — "the Besieger" — struck this issue at Salamis in Cyprus immediately following his decisive victory at the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC, though production of Alexander-type staters from that mint continued into the early third century. The city had been a Ptolemaic stronghold; its capture gave Demetrius control of Cyprus entirely and prompted his father Antigonus to assume the title of king, triggering a cascade of rival diadochi doing the same. Striking in Alexander's name rather than his own was a deliberate political calculation — legitimacy still derived from association with the Argead dynasty even twenty years after Alexander's death.