Tetradrachm - Demetrius I Poliorcetes Tarsos

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.