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Bronze - Æ 16-19 mm - 7 grams - Die axis 08:0000 - Probably struck 370-330 BC. |
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- Legend indiscernible -
Bust of Apollo, facing right. Hair bound with taenia.
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[BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦIΛIΠΠOY] (Basileos Phillipoy - King Philippus).
Horseman galloping rightwards, right arm holding reigns, left raised in salute. The man on horseback may actually be his famous halfbrother on this horse Bucephalus. Under the horse's forelegs a sort of 'staff'. This is actually part of Philipp's monogram.
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Philip Arridaeus (c.356-317): the mentally deficient and epileptic brother of Alexander the Great who succeeded him as king of the Macedonian empire in 323, but had several regents, who all used their pupil for their own purposes. Arridaeus was the son of the Macedonian king Philip II (360-336) and a Thessalian woman named Philinna. He was of about the same age as Alexander.
Minted in Macedonia.
Obv. : Good but bulbous - Rev. : Good but bulbous - Small piece at 09:00 to 12:00 cut off.
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