Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 132 30-31 May 2022
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Philip V, 221 – 179
Didrachm, Pella or Amphipolis circa 184-179, AR 8.36 g. Diademed head of Philip V r. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ – ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ Club; above, monogram and below, two monograms. All within oak-wreath; in l. field, trident. Mamroth 23. Boston, MFA 718 var. (one different monogram on reverse). McClean 3630 and pl. 135, 3 var. (one different monogram).
A very appealing and realistic portrait of fine style.
Light iridescent tone and about extremely fine
The reverse type depicting a club honours the divine ancestor of the Macedonian kings-Heracles. According to tradition, three sons of Temenos of Argos, a great-great-grandson of Heracles, ultimately founded the Argead or Temenid dynasty of Macedon. Although the bloodline of this dynasty actually came to an end with the death of Alexander the Great and the murders of his heirs, Philip III Arrhidaeus and the child Alexander IV, Heracles remained a Macedonian national hero and Alexander the Great a beloved memory of Macedonian imperial power. The losing conflicts of Philip V and his son Perseus against the Romans in the Second and Third Macedonian Wars (200-197 BC and 171-168 BC), respectively, resulted in the destruction of the Macedonian kingdom and its division into four districts (merides) under close Roman control. Nevertheless, the coinage of Philip V exerted a great influence on the development of the new coinages struck for the Macedonian merides and the wider Greek world. Virtually identical club-in-wreath reverses were used for the reverse of tetradrachms struck for the First Meris, but with a legend naming the district instead of a king. The oak wreath border on the coins of Philip V may represent the beginning of a wide fashion for wreathed reverse types that developed in the mid-second century BC.
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Didrachm, Pella or Amphipolis circa 184-179, AR 8.36 g. Diademed head of Philip V r. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ – ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ Club; above, monogram and below, two monograms. All within oak-wreath; in l. field, trident. Mamroth 23. Boston, MFA 718 var. (one different monogram on reverse). McClean 3630 and pl. 135, 3 var. (one different monogram).
A very appealing and realistic portrait of fine style.
Light iridescent tone and about extremely fine
The reverse type depicting a club honours the divine ancestor of the Macedonian kings-Heracles. According to tradition, three sons of Temenos of Argos, a great-great-grandson of Heracles, ultimately founded the Argead or Temenid dynasty of Macedon. Although the bloodline of this dynasty actually came to an end with the death of Alexander the Great and the murders of his heirs, Philip III Arrhidaeus and the child Alexander IV, Heracles remained a Macedonian national hero and Alexander the Great a beloved memory of Macedonian imperial power. The losing conflicts of Philip V and his son Perseus against the Romans in the Second and Third Macedonian Wars (200-197 BC and 171-168 BC), respectively, resulted in the destruction of the Macedonian kingdom and its division into four districts (merides) under close Roman control. Nevertheless, the coinage of Philip V exerted a great influence on the development of the new coinages struck for the Macedonian merides and the wider Greek world. Virtually identical club-in-wreath reverses were used for the reverse of tetradrachms struck for the First Meris, but with a legend naming the district instead of a king. The oak wreath border on the coins of Philip V may represent the beginning of a wide fashion for wreathed reverse types that developed in the mid-second century BC.
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