Category: Greek coins

MACEDOINE PHILIPPE II STATERE OR PELLA AVERS

The gold staters of Philip II of Macedon

First gold staters known mark the birth of money. They were issued byAlyattes and Croesus in Lydia (present-day Türkiye). Darius took up the same stallion for its darics within the Persian Empire but it was the Greek cities which, due to their establishment throughout the Mediterranean, made it a stallion. Philip II of Macedon newly…

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