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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Philippi (Macedon) |
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| Year | 356 BC - 345 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Heracles facing right, rendered in archaic Greek style with bold, naturalistic features. The god's hair is depicted in stylized wavy locks beneath the lion-skin headdress, the scalp and mane of which are clearly delineated above the brow. The facial profile is strongly modelled, with a prominent nose and well-defined chin. No legend appears on the obverse field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΙΛΙΠΠΩΝ |
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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, seized specifically for its proximity to the gold and silver mines of Mount Pangaion. The city's earliest autonomous coinage predates Macedonian royal dominance of the mint, making these hemidrachms among the few issues that reflect the colony's brief moment of genuine civic independence before absorption into the Macedonian monetary system rendered local types obsolete.