Stater - Demetrius I Poliorcetes In the name of Alexander III, Salamis

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.