Drachm - Antigonos II Gonatas Amphipolis

Antigonos II Gonatas secured Macedonia only after decades of chaos — the kingdom had been sacked by Gauls, fought over by Diadochi successors, and effectively ungoverned for stretches of the early third century. His consolidation of Amphipolis as a mint city reflects a deliberate administrative reassertion of Macedonian control over a strategically vital river crossing on the Strymon, a site Athens had fought wars to control two centuries earlier.

The SNG Copenhagen and Munich references place this firmly within a well-documented but modestly studied series. Amphipolis continued striking under successive Macedonian kings until Roman annexation in 168 BC.