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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 4733529, member: 74834&quot;]My nicest Philip II of Macedon - it is a contemporary imitation, but I think it has great expression and artistic quality. Under the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-tetradrachm-of-philip-ii-of-macedonia-almost.364281/#post-4688784" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-tetradrachm-of-philip-ii-of-macedonia-almost.364281/#post-4688784">influence of this interesting thread</a>, I was moved to believe this coin dates from the late 4th century BC and precedes the arrival of the Celts in Northern Greece (that happened in the 280s BC). So it is not - what I used to believe, just like the seller and many other numismatists, a <i>Celtic</i> imitation. It would be a Thracian or Illyrian coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158457[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Early imitation of a Philip II tetradrachm of Amphipolis. Fourrée (at the edge some giveaway spots). Obv. Laureate head of Zeus t.r., behind it, a leaf. Rev. Jockey and horse riding t.r. Under it, labda over a bucranium. Under the prancing leg of the horse, an A. 24.5 mm, 13.85 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="6">Next: Your nicest &#039;barbarous imitation&#039;. </font></font></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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