Celts, Lower Danube Silver Tetradrachm 3rd century BC or later, type of Philip III, NGC XF Extremely Fine, Strike 4/5, Surface 2/5.  17.42 g. 

Obverse: Head of Heracles facing right, wearing the lion-skin headdress, within a dotted border. 

Reverse: Zeus Aëtophoros seated left on a throne, holding an eagle in his extended right hand and a long sceptre in his left. Celticized royal legend and control marks/monograms appear in the fields. The design is based on the silver tetradrachms issued in the name of Philip III of Macedon.

 

Lower Danube Celts refers to Celtic-speaking peoples and communities established in and around the lower Danube and Balkan regions, particularly areas corresponding broadly to parts of modern Romania, Bulgaria and neighboring southeastern Europe. Celtic groups expanded into the Balkans during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, becoming involved in warfare, trade and mercenary service throughout the Hellenistic world. Their coinage frequently copied the widely circulating silver money of Macedonia. Imitative Macedonian coinage began in the Danube region within decades of Philip II's death, gradually developing increasingly distinctive local styles. 

The prototype for this coin belongs to the coinage of Philip III Arrhidaeus, king of Macedon from 323 to 317 BC. Philip III was a son of Philip II and half-brother of Alexander the Great. Following Alexander's death at Babylon in 323 BC, Philip was proclaimed king jointly with Alexander's infant son, Alexander IV. Effective political authority, however, remained largely with the generals and regents struggling for control of Alexander's empire. Philip III was eventually captured and killed on the orders of Olympias in 317 BC.

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