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| Issuer | Philippi (Macedon) |
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| Year | 356 BC - 345 BC |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Herakles facing left (or right on certain dies), clad in the Nemean lion skin headdress with the scalp drawn over the crown and the forelegs knotted at the throat. The modeling is rendered in a bold, archaic-transitional style characteristic of early Macedonian bronze coinage, with deeply cut facial features and naturalistic treatment of the lion pelt. No legend or inscription appears in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (356 BC - 345 BC) - head right and club and grain of wheat - ND (356 BC - 345 BC) - head left and club and grain of wheat - ND (356 BC - 345 BC) - head left and torch - ND (356 BC - 345 BC) - head left and M and earn of grain - ND (356 BC - 345 BC) - head left and bow in bow case - ND (356 BC - 345 BC) - head left and cantharus - |
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Philippi was renamed by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC — the same year he seized the city from the Thasian colonists who had founded it as Krenides just years earlier. The renaming was nakedly pragmatic: the nearby Pangaion gold and silver mines were generating revenues Philip immediately redirected toward his military campaigns. Bronze civic coinage of this period served local exchange while the precious metal extracted from the region fed the Macedonian war machine.
The Philippi#II series spans a narrow production window that closes well before Alexander's accession.