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 --