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In the shadowed forges of Pella, circa 359–336 BC, Philip II of Macedon unleashed a golden revolution. This AV Stater, struck in pure electrum-bright gold, bears the laureate head of Apollo on its obverse—serene, divine, a god gazing into eternity. The reverse thunders with a biga charioteer, horses in mid-gallop, symbolizing the king’s unstoppable phalanx. NGC Ancients grades it Choice About Uncirculated, preserving razor-sharp details: flowing mane, intricate wreath, and the faint strike of the mint’s die.
Philip’s coinage was no mere currency; it was propaganda on the move. Standardized at 8.6 grams, these staters funded mercenaries, bribed allies, and flooded markets from the Aegean to the Indus. Each piece proclaimed Macedonian hegemony, outshining Persian darics and Athenian owls. The luster remains, a whisper of the king’s ambition to eclipse Greece itself.
Today, this Ch AU survivor bridges millennia. Its surfaces glow with original mint bloom, untouched by the centuries’ grime. Hold it, and you grasp the pivot of history: a father’s currency forging an empire for his son, Alexander, to conquer the world.
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