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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Philippi (Macedon) |
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| Year | 356 BC - 345 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Head of Herakles in right-facing profile, clad in the Nemean lion skin headdress, the scalp drawn over the crown of the head with the lion's jaws framing the face and the forepaws knotted at the neck. The facial features are rendered in a vigorous, archaising style characteristic of early Macedonian civic coinage, with a strong jaw and deeply set eye visible beneath the leonine headdress. The field is plain, with no legend or additional devices. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philippi was refounded and renamed by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC — the same year this coinage begins — after he seized the site from the Thasian colony of Krenides, primarily to control the gold and silver mines of nearby Mount Pangaion. Those mines would fund his military campaigns and, eventually, his son's conquest of the known world. The city struck in its own name only during this narrow window before Macedonian royal coinage absorbed regional issues.