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Tetradrachm - Demetrius Poliorcetes
| Emittent | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Jahr | 291 BC - 290 BC |
| Typ | Standard circulation coin |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Youthful diademed head of Demetrius Poliorcetes facing right, adorned with small bull's horns projecting from the forehead, an attribute associating the king with Poseidon. The hair is rendered in finely detailed wavy locks swept back from the brow and bound by a royal diadem, with a loose tassel descending behind the neck. The portrait is executed in the high-relief Hellenistic style, with idealized facial features and a commanding profile. The field is plain, with no legend on the obverse, emphasizing the royal effigy as sole decorative element. |
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| Reversschrift | Greek |
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Demetrius Poliorcetes — "the Besieger" — struck this issue during a period of genuine military dominance, having seized Macedonia itself in 294 BC after killing Alexander V. The deified iconography adopted on his coinage was deliberately provocative, pushing royal self-presentation further than any Macedonian before him and alarming contemporaries who recorded the excess. His reign collapsed within three years; Pyrrhus and Lysimachus partitioned Macedonia against him in 288 BC, and he died a prisoner of Seleucus I in 283 BC.
Newell's die study placed this emission among the later Pella issues, a classification refined but largely sustained by subsequent scholarship.