Image: Philip VI Andriskos

Description: KINGS of MACEDON. Philip VI Andriskos. 149-148 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.35 g, 12h). Diademed head right, wearing a slight beard / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦIΛIΠΠOY, Herakles, standing left, holding rhyton in his right hand and club in his left, lion's skin hanging on left arm. Zhuyuetang 119 = Triton III, lot 397 (same obv. die); Berk BBS 127, lot 147 (overstruck on Thessalian League drachm). Good VF, lightly toned, overstruck on a Roman Republican denarius of C. Terentius Lucanus (Terentia 10; Crawford 217/1) with bold traces of undertype still visible including the head of Roma, the Dioscuri, and traces of the moneyer's name [TER] LV[C]. Extremely rare, the third known specimen.
Title: Philip VI Andriskos
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