Tetradrachm - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Amphipolis

Demetrius I earned his epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — at Rhodes in 305 BC, where he deployed an unprecedented siege tower called the Helepolis, nine stories tall, before ultimately failing to take the city. By the time this Amphipolis issue was struck, his fortunes had turned sharply: he had seized the Macedonian throne in 294 BC by murdering Alexander V, but held it for barely three years before Pyrrhus and Lysimachus moved against him simultaneously. Amphipolis, as the primary Macedonian mint, continued striking in his name even as his kingdom collapsed around him.