MACEDONIAN KINGDOM
Philip II, 359-336 BC
AE17. 6.98g, 16.9mm
MINTED: Uncertain Macedonian mint, circa 359-294 BC (Philip II and his successors).
REF: HGC 3.1, 882
OBVERSE: Diademed male head (Apollo?) right.REVERSE: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ, youthful rider on horse charging right.
Notes:
Dark earthen green patina.
Historical Notes:
Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, was king of Macedonia from 359 to 336 BC. A gifted military strategist, it was his reorganization of the Macedonian army, including the employment of full time soldiers, and the introduction of the sarissa-wielding phalanx, that later gave his son a devastatingly effective army with which he created one of the largest empires known to history. Indeed, Philip was himself an ambitious king, and breaking the military power of Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, he created the League of Corinth to control the Greek city-states, effectively unifying Greece under his rule. He was planning a large invasion of the Persian Empire when he was assassinated in 336 BC.
MACEDONIAN KINGDOM . Philip II, 359-336 BC. AE17 . Father of Alexander the Great
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