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Tetradrachm - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Tarsos
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 298 BC - 295 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
| Mint | Tarsos |
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Demetrius I Poliorcetes struck coinage at Tarsos following his seizure of the city during his campaigns in Cilicia, a region that changed hands repeatedly among the Diadochi in the decades after Alexander's death. Tarsos was a mint of genuine strategic value — its output helped fund a military machine that at its peak controlled much of the Aegean and mainland Greece.
Newell's classification of this type places it within a tightly dated sequence tied to Demetrius's movements through the eastern Mediterranean before his capture by Seleucus I in 285 BC.