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Kings of Macedon, Philip V, 221-179 BC, AR Tetradrachm – Corinth 220-217 BC
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Head of Herakles right wearing lion skin headdress.
AΛEΞANΔPOY Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on a throne with a backrest topped by two Nikai, in left field Athena advancing left, shield over shoulder, holding spear on which is perched an owl, ΘE beneath throne.
Commerce (“Achaeus Hoard”), 2002 (CH 10.277) no.6 (this coin), pl. 17, no.6 (this coin); Troxell Peloponnesian Alexanders pl. XVII, 3 (same obverse die); Price 703 (same obverse die); Noe ANSNS 6, 60.
(27 mm, 16.83 g, 1h).
Jencek Historical Enterprise; ex Commerce (“Achaeus Hoard”), 2002 (CH 10.277).
The “Achaeus Hoard” from which this coin derives is an assemblage of 87 coins identified in commerce in 2002 as having come from the same hoard from an unknown find location inferred to possibly be in southwest Asia Minor that was buried around c. 204-203 BC.
Struck ca. 220-217 BC in Corinth, part of the Achaean League contribution to the maintenance of the army of Philip V of Macedon during the Social War. Obverse struck from a worn die.
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![Kings of Macedon, Philip V, 221-179 BC, AR Tetradrachm – Corinth 220-217 BC
Head of Herakles right wearing lion skin headdress.
AΛEΞANΔPOY Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on a throne with a backrest topped by two Nikai, in left field Athena advancing left, shield over shoulder, holding spear on which is perched an owl, ΘE beneath throne.
Commerce (“Achaeus Hoard”), 2002 (CH 10.277) no.6 (this coin), pl. 17, no.6 (this coin); Troxell [i]Peloponnesian Alexanders[/i] pl. XVII, 3 (same obverse die); Price 703 (same obverse die); Noe ANSNS 6, 60.
(27 mm, 16.83 g, 1h).
Jencek Historical Enterprise; ex Commerce (“Achaeus Hoard”), 2002 (CH 10.277).
The “Achaeus Hoard” from which this coin derives is an assemblage of 87 coins identified in commerce in 2002 as having come from the same hoard from an unknown find location inferred to possibly be in southwest Asia Minor that was buried around c. 204-203 BC.
Struck ca. 220-217 BC in Corinth, part of the Achaean League contribution to the maintenance of the army of Philip V of Macedon during the Social War. Obverse struck from a worn die.](albums/userpics/37631/normal_Corinth%2C_Price_703_.jpg "Click to view full size image
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Kings of Macedon, Philip V, 221-179 BC, AR Tetradrachm – Corinth 220-217 BC
Head of Herakles right wearing lion skin headdress.
AΛEΞANΔPOY Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on a throne with a backrest topped by two Nikai, in left field Athena advancing left, shield over shoulder, holding spear on which is perched an owl, ΘE beneath throne.
Commerce (“Achaeus Hoard”), 2002 (CH 10.277) no.6 (this coin), pl. 17, no.6 (this coin); Troxell [i]Peloponnesian Alexanders[/i] pl. XVII, 3 (same obverse die); Price 703 (same obverse die); Noe ANSNS 6, 60.
(27 mm, 16.83 g, 1h).
Jencek Historical Enterprise; ex Commerce (“Achaeus Hoard”), 2002 (CH 10.277).
The “Achaeus Hoard” from which this coin derives is an assemblage of 87 coins identified in commerce in 2002 as having come from the same hoard from an unknown find location inferred to possibly be in southwest Asia Minor that was buried around c. 204-203 BC.
Struck ca. 220-217 BC in Corinth, part of the Achaean League contribution to the maintenance of the army of Philip V of Macedon during the Social War. Obverse struck from a worn die.")
