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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Edessa, post: 4865370, member: 84065&quot;]I don&#039;t know if the following has been superseded by more recent scholarship, but in &quot;The Coinages of Demetrios Poliorcetes&quot;, Edward Newell writes:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It will be remembered that some time in the course of the year 299-298 BC, Demetrius with his fleet was skirting the coast of Asia Minor escorting his daughter Stratonice eastward to her contemplated marriage with Seleucus. As Demetrius was passing Cilicia (since Ipsus in the hands of Pleistarchus, Cassander&#039;s brother) he seized the welcome opportunity, landed an expedition, and secured what remained of the famous treasure of Kyinda. According to Plutarch this treasure still amounted to some twelve hundred talents in precious metals. From Cilicia he proceeded to Rhossus in North Syria to meet Seleucus. Once arrived at Rhossus, Salamis lay only across the water from him. We may well picture Demetrius, if he had not already done so, hastily dispatching the ships carrying the precious bullion seized at Kyinda to the eminently safe harbor of Salamis. As already stated, that city possessed not only the nearest active mint of Demetrius but was also his strongest and most available fortress. It is, therefore, practically certain that the captured bullion would have been at the earliest possible moment transported to that stronghold for safe keeping and also minting. The gold coins, nos. 19 and 21, and the silver tetradrachms nos. 18, 22, 23, 24, we have every reason to believe, therefore, must have been struck from the Kyinda bullion.&quot; Pages 42-43 of the Obol 1978 reprint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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