MACEDON UNDER ROMAN PROTECTORATE, First Meris - Tetradrachm, Circa 167-148 BCE

MACEDON UNDER ROMAN PROTECTORATE, First Meris - Tetradrachm, Circa 167-148 BCE, Amphipolis.
Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, with bow and quiver over shoulder; all in centre of Macedonian shield.
MAKEΔONΩN / ΠPΩTHΣ. Club ; HP monogram above, N below ; all within oak wreath ; thunderbolt to left.
16,96 gr - 33 mm - 12 h
Ref : AMNG 167; HGC 3.1, 1103.

Provenance : Numismatik Naumann auction #152/191

Comment by NvmisForvms member Curtisimo about his First meris specimen : "In 168 BC Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeated Macedonian King Perseus V at the Battle of Pynda.  Perseus was taken captive and forced to walk in Aemilius Paulus’s triumph in Rome.  This was a shocking fall for the kingdom that could claim Alexander the Great and Philip II as it’s forebears. Macedon was divided into four districts or merides.  Each meris was theoretically an autonomous republic, but in actuality, each was subject to Roman client status.  The First Meris was by far the most prolific of the three districts that struck coins.  The First Meris had the benefit of the productive silver mines at Pangaion that were located just east of Amphipolis. The Macedonian shield design element of the coinage was maintained, with the only difference being the substitution of a portrait of the Macedonian King with a portrait of Artemis in the central boss. In 148 BC, the Fourth Macedonian War brought an end to the semi-autonomy of Macedonia and an end to the production of these beautiful tetradrachms."

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Sammlung : Grece antique