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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Philippi (Macedon) |
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| Year | 356 BC - 345 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A filleted tripod cauldron with three arched ring handles occupies the central field, its legs resting on a plain ground line; a laurel branch is depicted above the cauldron, and a dolphin appears to the right. The ethnic legend ΦΙΛΙΠΠΩΝ is inscribed in Greek characters, identifying the issuing city of Philippi in Macedon. |
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| Mint | Philippi |
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Philippi was founded by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC — the same year this coinage begins — on the site of the Thracian settlement of Krenides, primarily to control the nearby gold and silver mines of Mount Pangaion. Those mines would fund the Macedonian military machine that Philip and later Alexander deployed across the known world. The city's own autonomous coinage, of which this hemidrachm is part, predates the royal Macedonian issues that would eventually eclipse it.
The series is short-lived, ending around 345 BC when Macedonian royal coinage absorbed local monetary production.