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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4613369, member: 57495"]My favorite serrate bronze is a contemporary of the Demetrios I serrates, but from Macedonia. In HGC, it's suggested that they were probably struck by Philip Andriskos, the pretender to the Macedonian throne. The theory is that he had sought to get support at the Seleukid court from Demetrios. Though he failed to do so, he returned to Macedon with Syrian mint workers skilled in the production of these serrates. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142641[/ATTACH]<b>MACEDON, the Macedonians. Time of Philip VI Andriskos (?)</b></p><p>AE Serrate. 10.0g, 25mm. MACEDON, Amphipolis mint, probably under Philip VI Andriskos, circa 149-148 BC. SNG Cop 1294; HGC 3.1, 331 (S). O: Diademed head of Poseidon right, trident over shoulder. R: MAKE-ΔONΩN, club; monograms below left and right; all within oak wreath.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4613369, member: 57495"]My favorite serrate bronze is a contemporary of the Demetrios I serrates, but from Macedonia. In HGC, it's suggested that they were probably struck by Philip Andriskos, the pretender to the Macedonian throne. The theory is that he had sought to get support at the Seleukid court from Demetrios. Though he failed to do so, he returned to Macedon with Syrian mint workers skilled in the production of these serrates. [ATTACH=full]1142641[/ATTACH][B]MACEDON, the Macedonians. Time of Philip VI Andriskos (?)[/B] AE Serrate. 10.0g, 25mm. MACEDON, Amphipolis mint, probably under Philip VI Andriskos, circa 149-148 BC. SNG Cop 1294; HGC 3.1, 331 (S). O: Diademed head of Poseidon right, trident over shoulder. R: MAKE-ΔONΩN, club; monograms below left and right; all within oak wreath.[/QUOTE]
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