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Tetradrachm - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Amphipolis
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 289 BC - 288 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ |
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| Mint | Amphipolis |
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Demetrius I earned his epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — at Rhodes in 305–304 BC, where his elaborate siege machinery failed to take the city despite nearly a year of effort. The Rhodians sold the abandoned equipment and used the proceeds to commission the Colossus. He seized the Macedonian throne in 294 BC by murdering Alexander V, but his reign lasted barely three years before his own troops deserted to Pyrrhus and Lysimachus in 288 BC.
The Amphipolis mint was among the most productive of his Macedonian issues. This tetradrachm dates to the final months of that reign.