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211, Lot: 195. Estimate $150.
Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Philip II. 359-336 BC. Æ Unit (18mm, 6.29 g, 11h). Uncertain mint in Macedon. Diademed head of Apollo right / Youth on horseback right; HP monogram below. SNG ANS 923. Near EF, brown patina.


From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection.

The obverse of this coin features the head of the god Apollo, who became the tutelary deity of Philip II in 353 BC during the Third Sacred War. Vowing he would fight on behalf of the god, whose sacred Treasury at Delphi had been plundered, he used the war as an opportunity to expand his control in Greece. The rider on the reverse, similar to the reverse of his tetradrachms, ostensibly extolls his victory in the horse race at Olympia in 356 BC. However, the reverse also recalls the earlier Macedonian royal types, possibly an attempt to emphasize his Macedonian ancestry.