Demetrius I earned his epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — at Rhodes in 305–304 BC, deploying the Helepolis, the largest siege engine the ancient world had yet seen, to no ultimate effect. The city held. The mint at Demetrias, a city he founded in Thessaly and named after himself, struck this issue during the last years before his capture by Seleucus I in 285 BC, when his fortunes had collapsed entirely from a Macedonian kingship he held for barely six years.
Newell's attribution places this firmly among the final Thessalian output of a reign in terminal decline.
Demetrius I earned his epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — at Rhodes in 305–304 BC, deploying the Helepolis, the largest siege engine the ancient world had yet seen, to no ultimate effect. The city held. The mint at Demetrias, a city he founded in Thessaly and named after himself, struck this issue during the last years before his capture by Seleucus I in 285 BC, when his fortunes had collapsed entirely from a Macedonian kingship he held for barely six years.
Newell's attribution places this firmly among the final Thessalian output of a reign in terminal decline.