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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 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet decorated with a griffin in profile on the bowl; the facial features are rendered in fine Hellenistic style with delicate relief, the cheek-guards of the helmet framing the goddess's profile. The neck is bare and the truncation is clean. No legend or inscription appears in the field. |
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| Mint | Salamis (Cyprus) |
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Struck at Salamis in Cyprus shortly after Demetrius I Poliorcetes secured the island with his decisive naval victory over Ptolemy I at the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC — the engagement that prompted his father Antigonus to proclaim both of them kings. Issuing gold staters in Alexander's name was a deliberate political gesture: it anchored Demetrian authority to the Macedonian royal tradition while the Successors were still actively contesting legitimacy through coinage as much as through armies.
The Salamis mint's output under Demetrius is catalogued by Newell with enough precision to sequence individual die marriages. This piece falls within his earliest Salamis group.