Stater - Philip III Arrhidaeus Abydos

Philip III Arrhidaeus was Alexander the Great's half-brother — intellectually disabled, possibly epileptic, and installed as king by the Macedonian infantry faction immediately after Alexander's death in 323 BC as a compromise candidate against the claims of Alexander's unborn son. He never exercised real power. The coinage issued in his name, including this Abydos stater, continued Alexander's established monetary types almost without modification, a deliberate policy choice by the regents Perdiccas and later Antipater to maintain economic continuity across the fractured empire.

Abydos, positioned at the Hellespont, held obvious strategic importance for controlling movement between Europe and Asia. Price P28 is among the less frequently encountered of the Philip III regional issues.