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Stater
| Issuer | Philippi |
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| Year | 356 BC - 345 BC |
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| Value | Gold Stater (20) |
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| Obverse description | Head of Heracles facing right, wearing the Nemean lion-skin headdress, the jaws of the lion framing the upper portion of the face in characteristic archaic-to-early Classical style. The modeling of the facial features is bold and finely rendered, with a prominent eye, strong jaw, and carefully detailed lion-scalp knotted at the neck. The flan is irregular, as typical of early hammered gold coinage from the region. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΙΛΙΠΠΩΝ |
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These staters were struck from the gold mines of Mount Pangaion, which Philip II of Macedon seized from the Thasian colonists of Philippi shortly after founding the city in 356 BC. The mines were producing an estimated 1,000 talents annually by the mid-4th century, and this coinage represents the earliest phase of that exploitation — before Philip consolidated production under his own Macedonian royal issues. The Philippian civic staters were quickly superseded once Philip reorganized the regional mint output to fund his military campaigns.