Stater - Philip III Arrhidaeus In the name of Philip II, Amphipolis

Philip III Arrhidaeus was Alexander the Great's half-brother — intellectually disabled, largely a figurehead, and installed by the Macedonian army in the chaos immediately following Alexander's death in 323 BC. These gold staters were struck in Philip II's name rather than his own, a deliberate conservative choice by the regents Perdiccas and later Antipater to invoke the authority of the dynasty's most militarily successful king at a moment when that authority was desperately needed. The Amphipolis mint was the primary source of Macedonian gold coinage throughout this period.