KINGS of MACEDON: Philip III Arrhidaios (323-317 BCE), AR Drachm. Lampsakos, 4.19g, 17.5mm.
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion’s skin headdress.
Rev: Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; buckle in left field, A beneath crescent below throne.
Price P15.
Philip III, a tragic figure, was Alexander the Great’s half-brother, and likely mentally disabled. Alexander was apparently fond of him, but after Alexander's death Arrhidaios was a pawn of the powerful, including Perdikkas the regent, Eurydice his wife and half-sister, Antipater, and Alexander’s mother Olympias, who ultimately had him executed.