Gold Quarter Stater (2.10g). 340-330 B.C. Head of young Herakles facing right, wearing a lion's skin headdress. Rev. ΦIΛIΠΠOY (“Philippou”) in Greek letters for King Philip.  bow, war club to left above, and a fulmen (thunder bolt) below.
Philip II was the first of the great Macedonian leaders and laid the foundations for one of the largest empires of the western world. Philip II King of Macedonia issued his gold coinage to pay the many Celtic mercenaries to help him achieve his conquests and ever-expanding kingdom. Philip was assassinated by a young Macedonian noble called Pausanias, who held a bitter grievance against the young queen’s uncle Attalus and against Philip for denying him justice.
The Macedonian Kingdom would be take over by his son. Possibly the most acclaimed Military General in history- Alexander the Great.