★ Rare Social War issue ★
KINGS of MACEDON: Philip V (221-179 BCE), AE16, issued 220-217. Pella or Amphipolis. 4.00g, 16mm.
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin
Rev: B-A / Φ-I; Horseman riding right.
Mamroth, Bronzemünzen 2; Touratsoglou, Macedonia 1; HGC 3, 1073.
A rare type, dateable to the first few years of Philip's reign while he was still a teenager. In this period he defeated the tribes in the north and led the Hellenic league in victories against Sparta and and the Aetolian League in the Social War, re-establishing Macedon as the pre-eminent military power in Greece.
Estimate: 60