Tetradrachma of Demetrius I of Macedon

‎Macedon’s Demetrius I (reigned 294–288 B.C.) destroyed Ptolemy I’s Egyptian navy at Salamis in 306 B.C. Named king of Cyprus that year, Demetrius earned his sobriquet “Poliorcetes” (“Besieger”) for siege engines he designed while unsuccessfully besieging Rhodes. This silver coin shows him goat-horned like Dionysus, god of revelry; Demetrius’ oppressive licentiousness made many enemies. In 288, disaffected Macedonians joined Demetrius’ foes Lysimachus, Pyrrhus, and Ptolemy I, expelling Demetrius from Macedonia. In Syria in 286 he surrendered to Seleucus I, who imprisoned him; he died in 283.

‎Isa 33:21, 1 Macc. 1:7–9, 2 Macc 4:29–41, 2 Macc 6:7, 2 Macc 14:33, 3 Macc 2:29