Stater - Philip III Arrhidaeus Pella

Philip III Arrhidaeus was Alexander the Great's half-brother — intellectually disabled, almost certainly exploited as a figurehead — who was elevated to the Macedonian throne immediately after Alexander's death in 323 BC by soldiers who wanted a king they could control. The gold staters struck in his name at Pella continued the Philip II coinage types rather than adopting anything new, a deliberate political choice to project continuity during the brutal succession wars among the Diadochi.

He was murdered on Olympias's orders in 317 BC, yet the Pella mint continued striking staters in his name until approximately 310 BC — coins honoring a king already dead for seven years.