3053 - Seuthopolis (Seuthes III) (AESeuthes/rider) over Philip II (Apollo/rider) (Aegean Numismatics, Dec. 2016, 29)

"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Sear I, n° 1725, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG Stancomb, n° 294, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 3.2, n° 1713-1714

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

Head of Apollo, wearing laurel wreath (visible on obverse).

Reverse:

BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ (Greek) Naked youth riding horse right, holding reins (visible on reverse: legend)

Mint and issuing power

Mint ^ᵖ:

Amphipolis

Ancient region ^ᵖ

Macedon

Modern country: Greece

Authority ^ᵖ:

Macedonian kingdom, Philip II (Argead king, 359-336 BC), Philipp III Arrhidaeus (Argead king, 323-317 BC)

Chronology

From 359 BCE to 317 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

period

Physical description

References

Coin type reference ^ᵖ:	"[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4HGC 3.1, n° 882
Coin series web reference overstruck:	https://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.P5

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidence:	sure
Remarks:	"However, a more careful eye will note that the undertype is not a regular Philip II issue at all, but rather it is a satrapal bronze of Lysimachus"

References

^ Sear, David R. (1978), Greek coins and their values. Vol. I, Europe, London, xl, 316 p.
^ Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Great Britain. Volume 11, The William Stancomb Collection of coins of the Black Sea Region, Oxford, 2000, liii p. of plates, map ; 31 cm.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2017), Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors. 3. Part 2: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike, Sixth to First Centuries BC, Lancaster-London, xix, 232 p.
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.