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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7789073, member: 86498"]Tetradrachm of Philip III Arrhidaeus 323/322-320 BC Struck under Perdikkas as Regent. Babylon Obv Head of Herakles with lion skin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left. Price P 205 17.18 grams 26 mm Photo by W. Hansen</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1336991[/ATTACH]</p><p>Perdikkas was given the unenviable position of trying to keep the empire together and almost immediately his authority was challenged. Unable to control the growing divisions with the empire, he died in 320 BC during an attempt to bring Ptolemy Satrap of Egypt to heel. The problem of dating this coin is the result of controversy over date that the title Basileos was conferred on Philip III. Price assumed that the title was conferred automatically in 323 BC. However he assumed that the title was conferred on Alexander III in 325 and placed on the coinage immediately afterwards. This was not the case and the Basileos issues did not start till after after the death of Alexander III in 323 BC. Sources now contend that the title was not conferred on Philip III until 322 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7789073, member: 86498"]Tetradrachm of Philip III Arrhidaeus 323/322-320 BC Struck under Perdikkas as Regent. Babylon Obv Head of Herakles with lion skin headdress. Rv Zeus Aetophoros seated left. Price P 205 17.18 grams 26 mm Photo by W. Hansen [ATTACH=full]1336991[/ATTACH] Perdikkas was given the unenviable position of trying to keep the empire together and almost immediately his authority was challenged. Unable to control the growing divisions with the empire, he died in 320 BC during an attempt to bring Ptolemy Satrap of Egypt to heel. The problem of dating this coin is the result of controversy over date that the title Basileos was conferred on Philip III. Price assumed that the title was conferred automatically in 323 BC. However he assumed that the title was conferred on Alexander III in 325 and placed on the coinage immediately afterwards. This was not the case and the Basileos issues did not start till after after the death of Alexander III in 323 BC. Sources now contend that the title was not conferred on Philip III until 322 BC.[/QUOTE]
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