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Stater
| Issuer | Philippi (Macedon) |
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| Year | 356 BC - 345 BC |
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| Weight | 8.57 g |
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| Reverse description | A tripod cauldron depicted in profile, supported on three legs terminating in lion's paw feet, with three loop handles rising from the bowl's rim — a prominent religious and Apolline symbol. To the right of the tripod, a stag's head facing right is rendered in fine detail, serving as a secondary device. The ethnic legend ΦΙΛΙΠΠΩΝ, identifying the issuing city of Philippi, is inscribed in the field, likely to the left or below the tripod. The composition is well-centered within the irregular flan, consistent with hammered coinage of the mid-4th century BC. |
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| Mint | Philippi |
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Philippi's gold staters are among the earliest coinage struck by the city after its refounding by Philip II in 356 BC — the same year he renamed it from Krenides and began exploiting the nearby Mount Pangaion mines in earnest. The output from those mines financed Philip's military campaigns across Greece and, critically, gave Macedonia a gold coinage competitive with Persian darics circulating throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
The city's own stater series was relatively short-lived, superseded by Philip's royal gold coinage once Macedonian monetary infrastructure matured.