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bgr_409035 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II Unité

MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II Unité XF
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: c. 349-336 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amphipolis
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 6,83 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais. Belle tête d’Apollon. Joli revers inhabituel. Belle patine vert clair
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Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Apollon à gauche, coiffée de la tainia.

Reverse


Reverse description : Cavalier galopant à gauche ; tête d’Hélios ou astre entre les antérieurs du cheval.
Reverse legend : FILIPPOU.

Commentary


Poids léger. Type de loin le plus rare avec le cavalier à gauche et la tête d’Apollon à gauche représenté seulement par quatre exemplaires dans la collection de l’American Numismatic Society sur un total de 135 exemplaires.

Historical background


MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II

(359-336 BC)

Philip of Macedon was the brother of Perdiccas III (365-359 AC.), both sons of Amyntas III (381-369 AC.). Their older brother Alexander II was assassinated by Ptolemy who received the regency for Perdiccas III and Philip II (369-365 AC.). Ptolemy was finally killed by Philip II in 365 BC while his brother died fighting the Illyrians six years later. Philip II began the conquest of the Greek world from 357 BC He was the indefatigable enemy of Athens and Demosthenes. He seized Amphipolis in 357 BC and took twenty years to conquer Greece. The victory of Chéronée crowned his work in 338 before J. - C. He was assassinated in 336 before J. - C., at the instigation of his first wife, Olympias, who was afraid to see her son Alexander, dispossessed of the throne of Macedonia after the birth of a boy from a second marriage.

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