PHILIP II MACEDONIA AE17___3 Time Olympic Champion___FATHER OF ALEXANDER - GREAT

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13U158
FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL BRONZE COIN OF PHILIP II OF MACEDONIA FROM 359 - 336 BC.
OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN 356 BC, 352 BC & 348 BC
THE SIZE IS 16.9 MM AND 6.59 GRAMS.
SNG Cop 581 - 616
OBVERSE – Head of Apollo, hair bound with tainia
REVERSE – PHILIPPOU Naked youth on prancing horse
OLYMPICS
This coin was designed to immortalize Philip's own victory in the equestrian events at the Olympic games in 356 BC, the year of Alexander the Great’s birth. Philip II was an Olympic champion three times.
• In the 106th Olympics, in 356 BC, Philip II won the race, riding his horse.
• In the 107th Olympics, in 352 BC, Philip II won the four-horse chariot race.
• In the 108th Olympics, in 348 BC, Philip II was the winner of the two colt chariot race.
PHILIP II
According to the Greek historian Theopompus of Chios, Europe had never seen a man like king Philip of Macedonia, and he called his history of the mid-fourth century BC the Philippic History. Theopompus had a point. Not even his better known son Alexander has done so much to change the course of Greek history. Philip reorganized his kingdom, gave it access to the sea, expanded its power so that it could defeat the Achaemenid Empire, and subdued the Greek city-states, which never regained their independence again. To achieve this, he modernized the Macedonian economy, improved the army, and concluded several marital alliances. The result was a superpower with one weakness: it was as strong as its king. When Philip's son Alexander died, the institutions were too weak, and Macedonia never recovered.
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