G. KINGDOM OF PAEONIA

Ancient Coins from The Kingdom of Paeonia in the Forum Ancient Coins shop

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G. KINGDOM OF PAEONIA.

The death of Perdiccas III, King of Macedon (B.C. 359), was followed by a period of confusion during which the Paeonians rose and shook off the yoke of the royal house of Macedon.

The independent kings of Paeonia between this date and B.C. 286 are as follows:—

Lycceius. Circ. B.C. 359-340. Silver coins of debased Macedonian weight. Tetradrachms 214-188 grs.

FIG. 148.

A fragment of an inscription found some years ago at Athens (Hicks and Hill, Gk. Hist. Inscr., p. 255) mentions a treaty of alliance between the Athenians, on the one part, and Cetriporis of Thrace, Lyppeius of Paeonia, and Grabus of Illyris on the other. There can be no doubt about the identity of the Lyppeius of the inscription with the Lycpeius or Lycceius of the coins. The coin with the head of Apollo (?) accompanied by the inscription ΔΕΡΡΩΝΑΙΟΣ seems to prove that the district in habited by the Derrones (see supra, p. 201) was included in the dominions of Lycceius.

Patraus. Circ. B.C. 340-315.

FIG. 149.

Bastareus. An unknown king of some tribe bordering upon the Paeonian district. Two tetradrachms only known, found with coins of Patraus:—

Audoleon. Circ. B.C. 315-286.

FIG. 150.

There are also barbarous imitations of the tetradrachms of Philip of Macedon, obv. Head of Zeus, rev. Horseman, with the inscr. ΑΥΔΩΛΕΟΝΤΟΣ (Berlin Catalog, II. Pl. I. 9).

After circ. B.C. 306 Audoleon followed the example of the Diadochi, and adopted the title Βασιλευς. He then struck Attic tetradrachms, similar in type to the money of Alexander the Great, but with the inscription ΑΥΔΩΛΕΟΝΤΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ. Audoleon 's coins were frequently imitated by barbarians of the interior.

Dropion (?), after circ. B.C. 279. See J. P. Six, Annuaire de Numismatique, 1883, p. 5.

In 1877 an inscription was discovered at Olympia, on the base of a statue, stating that it was set up by the community of the Paeonians in honor of their king and founder, Dropion, who probably reconstituted the country after the invasion of the Gauls. The monogram ΔΡ also occurs on tetradrachms of Lysimachus (Müller, No. 489). There is, however, in the British Museum, a coin similar to that described above, except that it reads ΠΑΟΝΩΝ and has the monogram (Audoleon (?)). This casts some doubt upon the attribution to Dropion proposed by Six.

Nicarchus. An unknown dynast, probably contemporary with Patraus.