★ Founding of Philippi ★

KINGS of MACEDON, Philippi under Philip II, c. 356-345 BCE. 5.32g, 15-17mm.
Obv: Head of Herakles left, wearing lion's skin.
Rev: ΦIΛIΠΠΩN, Tripod; bow in bowcase in field left.
BMC 17.
Lovely reverse with a particular nice bowcase containing a bow.

Issued soon after Krenides was conquered by Philip II and modestly renamed “Philippi.” It would eventually be the site of Octavian and Antony's defeat of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
Estimate: 50