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Tetradrachm - Demetrius Poliorcetes Tyre
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 290 BC - 287 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned to the left upon a low throne, his figure rendered in the classical Hellenistic manner. In his extended right hand he holds an eagle facing outward, while his left hand grasps a long sceptre. The two-line legend ΔHMHTPIOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ ('of King Demetrios') is inscribed in the field. In the left field, a dolphin enclosed within a circle serves as a mint control symbol identifying the Tyre mint, and the letter alpha (A) appears beneath the throne as a secondary control mark. |
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| Mint | Tyre |
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Demetrius Poliorcetes struck coinage at Tyre following his seizure of the city around 294 BC, integrating the Phoenician mint into his broader effort to finance a sprawling, perpetually overstretched military machine. Newell 31 belongs to a tightly sequenced emission from the final years of his reign — issued while he was losing ground across Greece and Asia Minor to Pyrrhus and Lysimachus simultaneously.
He surrendered to Seleucus I in 285 BC and died in captivity two years later. The Tyre mint ceased producing in his name shortly before the collapse.