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Tetradrachm - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Salamis
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 300 BC - 295 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Poseidon Pelagaios striding left in dynamic pose, his right arm raised and drawn back to hurl a trident, his chlamys billowing behind him; the deity is rendered with muscular Hellenistic naturalism. A monogram appears in the left field and a labrys (double-headed axe) is placed in the right field as mint control marks. The royal legend runs in two lines around the figure in the field. |
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| Mint | Salamis (Cyprus) |
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Demetrius Poliorcetes struck this issue at Salamis in Cyprus following his decisive naval victory over Ptolemy I at the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC — the same engagement that prompted both Demetrius and his father Antigonus to claim the title of king, triggering a cascade of self-proclamations among the Diadochi. The Salamis mint was a direct prize of that victory, seized from Ptolemaic control and immediately put to work funding Demetrius's ambitions.
Newell 66 places this emission within the later Salamis sequence, after the mint's output had stabilized under Demetrian administration.