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1/4 Stater - Philip III In the name of Alexander III, Miletus
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 323 BC - 319 BC |
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| Value | 1/4 Gold Stater (5) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip III Arrhidaeus was Alexander's half-brother — intellectually disabled, likely from birth, possibly worsened by a deliberate poisoning attempt in childhood — and was elevated to co-king by the Macedonian infantry in the chaos immediately following Alexander's death in Babylon. He never governed in any meaningful sense. These fractional gold issues struck at Miletus in his name deliberately perpetuated Alexander's royal types, a calculated political signal that continuity, not rupture, was the message the regents wished to project.
Miletus had only recently returned to Macedonian control, and its mint was active in this transitional window before Philip III's murder by Olympias in 319.