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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2970495, member: 51347&quot;]I have always enjoyed the History of Philip II of Makedon.&nbsp; Brilliant man for his era, and perhps one of the more billiant minds in Ancient History.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wonderful book clearly puts Philip II in perspective:&nbsp; without the rebuilding of Makedon into a nation, without him making revolutionary reforms creating the Makedonwn Phalanx, without him developing the Makedonwn Wedge Cavalry, without him capturing and developing the Silver mines to finance, without him to develop an excellent Military Command Staff, Alexander III (the Great) may had never happened.&nbsp; Alexander&#039;s brilliance was to EXECUTE his Father&#039;s plans to conquer Persia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really enjoyed <b>&quot;Philip II of Macedonia - Greater than Alexander&quot;</b> by Richard A. Gabriel. C 2010</p><p><br /></p><p>Big fun for me today...&nbsp; Some time ago, [USER=42773]@John Anthony[/USER] pointed out in one of my postings that I have a RARE version of the AE coin depicting Apollo and a Horse and Rider.&nbsp; Both Apollo and the Rider were facing LEFT.&nbsp; He stated their were 4 versions.&nbsp; Cool, I am going to get all 4 for funzies.&nbsp; I found the FOURTH version today (no real push to find it), that completed a little subset collection of all four facing combinations:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>LEFT-LEFT Facing:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]728694[/ATTACH]</p><p>Makedon Philip II 359-336 BC AE 17 Horse Rider&nbsp; LEFT-LEFT facing RARE</p><p><br /></p><p><b>LEFT-RIGHT Facing:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]728695[/ATTACH]</p><p>Makedon Philip II 359-336 BC AE 19 Horse LEFT-RIGHT</p><p>[ATTACH=full]728697[/ATTACH]</p><p>Makedon Philip II 359-336 BC AE 19 Horse LEFT-RIGHT &amp; Hound</p><p><br /></p><p><b>RIGHT-LEFT Facing:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]728698[/ATTACH]</p><p>Makedon Philip II 359-336 BC AE 17 Apollo - Horse Rider RIGHT-LEFT facing</p><p><br /></p><p><b>RIGHT-RIGHT Facing:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]728699[/ATTACH]</p><p>Makedon Philip II AE 18 Apollo - Youth Horseback spear head below 359-356 BCE RIGHT-RIGHT 18mm 6.2g SNG ANS 850-1</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #b30000">Please feel free to post your Philip II&#039;s, cool Makedons, or neat little collection subsets...</span></i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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