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Silver tetradrachm of Demetrios Poliorketes

300–294 BC

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 158

Nike with trumpet on ship's prow/Poseidon with his trident
Salamis, Cyprus

Mint of Salamis
Heralded as "the Besieger of Cities" Demetrios I was renowned from a young age for the brilliant naval campaigns he waged against rival dynasts across the Eastern Mediterranean. On this coin, Nike alighting on the prow of a defeated battleship commemorates his important naval victory in 306 B.C. at Salamis on Cyprus where this coin was minted.

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Title: Silver tetradrachm of Demetrios Poliorketes

Period: Hellenistic

Date: 300–294 BC

Medium: Silver

Dimensions: Diameter: 1 × 1/8 in., 0.6oz. (2.6 × 0.3 cm, 16.68g)

Classification: Coins

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1905

Object Number: 05.44.399

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