KINGS of MACEDON. Philip V. 221-179 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 17.03 g, 11h). Pella or Amphipolis mint. Struck circa 211-197 BC. Helmeted and beardless head of the hero Perseus left, harpa over shoulder, in boss of a Macedonian shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents /
BASILEWS FILIPPOU, club within oak wreath, M to left. Boehringer,
Chronologie pl. 8, 7; Mamroth,
Philip -; AMNG III pg. 197, 1 (Philip VI); cf. SNG Alpha Bank 1051. Good VF, lightly toned. Rare.
Noted by a beardless Perseus on the obverse and the absence of control marks within the wreath on the reverse, the rare tetradrachms of Philip's second series had originally been attributed by Gaebler (in AMNG) to Philip VI Andriskos. Gaebler's attribution was based primarily on his analysis of a number of coins he examined in Berlin upon which he saw apparent traces of undertypes. He concluded that the undertypes were the LEG MAKEDONWN tetradrachms, which were issued contemporary to the revolt of Andriskos. Gaebler also noted the crude die engraving of this issue compared to the types attributed to Philip V. M. Thompson suggested problems with this theory in her analysis of a hoard from Northern Greece dating to the first half of the second century BC
