Silver tetradrachm of Demetrios Poliorketes
Unknown Artist
Head of Demetrios Poliorketes/Poseidon with trident
Mint of Amphipolis
Demetrios 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 royalty.
Credit: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1967
Ca. 289–288 B.C.
Silver
3.0 x 0.4cm
67.265.30
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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