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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Macedonian Kingdom| > SH90224
Macedonian Kingdom, Philip II of Macedonia, 359 - 336 B.C.
|Macedonian| |Kingdom|, |Macedonian| |Kingdom,| |Philip| |II| |of| |Macedonia,| |359| |-| |336| |B.C.|, Philip II became the ruler of all Greece when he defeated the Athenians at the Battle of Chaeroneia in 338 B.C. Philip personally selected the design of his coins. His horse, on the reverse of this coin, won a race in the Olympic Games in 356 B.C., the year his son Alexander the Great was born.
SH90224. Silver tetradrachm, Le Rider 388 ff. (D202/-), SNG ANS 534 ff., SNG Cop 554, SNG Alpha Bank -, EF, toned, obverse slightly double struck, Macedonia, Amphipolis mint, weight 14.386g, maximum diameter 25.2mm, die axis 180o, c. 342 - 328 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Zeus right; reverse ΦIΛIΠΠOY, naked youth pacing right on horseback, palm frond in right, reins in left, prow below; ex Heritage auction 3032, lot 23068; ex CNG Sale XXVI (11 June 1993), lot 246; SOLD










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Klose, D. & G. Stumpf. Sport, Spiel, Sieg. (Munich, 1996).


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