bgr_729977 - MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 354-349 AC.
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Amphipolis
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 6,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli portrait d’Apollon. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d’Apollon à droite, coiffée de la tainia.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cavalier galopant à droite, coiffé de la kausia.
Reverse legend : FILIPPOU
Reverse translation : (de Philippe).
Commentary
Ce type est beaucoup plus rare que celui sans kausia (coiffe nationale macédonienne). En s’appuyant sur le monnayage d’argent, il pourrait correspondre au premier monnayage de bronze de Philippe II comme pour l’argent. Seulement trois exemplaires de ce type faisaient partie du trésor de Drama.
Historical background
MACEDONIA - MACEDONIAN KINGDOM - PHILIP II
(359-336 BC)
Philip of Macedon was the brother of Perdiccas III (365-359 AC.), both sons of Amyntas III (381-369 AC.). Their older brother Alexander II was assassinated by Ptolemy who received the regency for Perdiccas III and Philip II (369-365 AC.). Ptolemy was finally killed by Philip II in 365 BC while his brother died fighting the Illyrians six years later. Philip II began the conquest of the Greek world from 357 BC He was the indefatigable enemy of Athens and Demosthenes. He seized Amphipolis in 357 BC and took twenty years to conquer Greece. The victory of Chéronée crowned his work in 338 before J. - C. He was assassinated in 336 before J. - C., at the instigation of his first wife, Olympias, who was afraid to see her son Alexander, dispossessed of the throne of Macedonia after the birth of a boy from a second marriage.
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