Macedonia, Macedonia under the Romans. AE

Macedonia, Macedonia under the Romans; Macedonia under the Romans, Macedonia, Likely struck after 168 BC (Roman conquest of Macedon) and before or during the early Imperial period, AE, 4.20g.

AMNG III for eagle types in Macedonia, Varbanov-I (uncertain mint), cf. SNG Copenhagen or BMC Macedon for similar civic bronzes.

Obv. Head of Zeus, right.

Rx. Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; monogram resembling M with vertical line through center (ligature or civic abbreviation) in right field.

Note: A small bronze imitating Ptolemaic coinage, struck in Macedonia likely under local civic authority or the Koinon of Macedonians. The eagle-and-thunderbolt motif reflects Zeus iconography and continued Hellenistic tradition under emerging Roman oversight. The monogram may denote a regional or mint abbreviation.

Ex coll. of Prof. David MacDonald, 2025.This very interesting type was truck under the Romans, but copying the Ptolemaic types. Very rare and unusual . EF