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Tetradrachm - Philip II Pella
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 323 BC - 315 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ |
| Edge | Plain |
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These posthumous tetradrachms of Philip II were struck years after his assassination in 336 BC, continuing a coinage type that had become the dominant trade currency across the Greek world and into Thrace. The original issues funded Philip's armies so effectively that the type was simply too trusted to retire — mints from Pella to Amphipolis kept striking them under Cassander's authority long after Alexander the Great had moved east with his own coinage.
Le Rider's classification of this series remains the foundational reference, distinguishing the posthumous issues by die links and subtle stylistic shifts that accumulate across decades of production.