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Tetradrachm - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Amphipolis
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 290 BC - 289 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Amphipolis Mint |
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Demetrius I earned the epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — for his extraordinary siege operations, most famously his two-year assault on Rhodes ending in 304 BC. This Amphipolis issue dates to a turbulent final phase of his reign over Macedonia, seized in 294 BC after he had his father-in-law Antipater murdered. By 288 BC he would be expelled by a coalition of Pyrrhus and Lysimachus, dying a prisoner of Seleucus I in 283 BC.
Amphipolis was one of his most productive mints during this period. Newell's die study remains the definitive reference for sequencing these issues.