Silver tetradrachm of Demetrios Poliorketes ca. 289–288 Head of Demetrios Poliorketes/Poseidon with tridentMint of AmphipolisDemetrios Poliorketes was among the first of Alexander’s successors to mint coins bearing his own portrait image. The youthful king is represented with bull’s horns, signalling his association with the god Dionysos, and he wears the diadem reserved for Macedonian Silver tetradrachm of Demetrios Poliorketes. ca. 289–288 Silver. Hellenistic. Coins

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