Stater

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 The Philippian civic staters were quickly superseded once Philip reorganized the regional mint output to fund his military campaigns.