Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Tetradrachm - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Pella
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
|---|---|
| Year | 293 BC - 292 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Nike, winged and draped, stands left upon the prow of a warship (aphlaston visible at stern), blowing a long war trumpet (salpinx) held in her right hand while her left hand grasps a stylis (steering oar). The figure is rendered in the dynamic Hellenistic style associated with the workshop of Demetrius I, conveying a sense of movement and martial triumph. The galley prow projects to the left beneath her feet, rendered in fine relief detail. No legend appears on the obverse field. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Demetrius I earned the epithet "Poliorcetes" — the Besieger — for his siege warfare, most famously his failed two-year assault on Rhodes ending in 304 BC. By the time this coin was struck at Pella, he had seized the Macedonian throne from Antipater's son Alexander V, whom he murdered at a banquet in 294 BC. His reign lasted barely three years before his own army defected to Pyrrhus and Lysimachus.
Newell 74 places this issue firmly in the Pella mint sequence during the penultimate year of his rule.