Tetradrachm - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Amphipolis

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.