Description
Collection Number:
WC 141
Object Number:
Dates:
348 BC - 343 BC
Denomination:
tetradrakhma
Dimensions:
28.50mm
Weight:
14.41g
Authority:
Philipp II of Macedon
Mint:
Amphipolis
Languages:
Greek
Obverse Type: Laureate head of Zeus right, without circular border
Obverse Legend:
none
Obverse Inscription Languages:
none
Obverse Mintmarks: none
Obverse Inscription Comment:
none
Reverse Type: Youth on horse riding to right, holding palm branch (with globule); rose below horse leg; PHILIP-POU, all within linear circular border. A small punch mark is visible on the exergual line.
Reverse Legend:
PHILIP-POU
Reverse Inscription Languages:
Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
none
Reverse Inscription Comments:
none
Bibliography
Georges Le Rider Le monnayage d’argent et d’or de Philippe II (Paris: 1977): Group II.A no. 227 (same dies as SNG ANS 498 and one other specimen in ANS not listed therein; Bucharest, Biblioteca Centrală Universitară ‘Carol I’)
WC I no. 141 (this coin)
SNG ANS VIII. Macedonia II no. 498 (same dies)
SNG Greece II. Alpha Bank --
SNG Greece IV. Saroglos --