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 | | A series of tetradrachms followed, which ended with the Carthaginian destruction of Himera in 409 B.C. The influence of Syracusan coinage is immediately evident in the obverse of this tetradrachm, which depicts the racing quadriga, its charioteer crowned by Nike, that had by this time become a standard type on Syracusan coins. |
 | | (G23) Philip III (Arrhidaeus) Ar Tetradrachm (circa 352 BC - December 25, 317 BC), king of Macedonia June 10, 323 BC -December 25, 317 BC, was the feeble-minded son of Philip II of Macedonia by Philinna of Larissa, a Thessalian wife, and half-brother of Alexander the Great. |
 | | After his brother's death in June 10, 323 BC he was chosen by the Macedonian army at Babylon to be nominal king and later this year he was joined in the throne by his nephew, the infant Alexander IV of Macedon. |
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