Andriskos
Andriskos var en man av enkel härkomst som 151 f.Kr. utgav sig för att vara son till Perseus av Makedonien.
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Andriskos ledde ett uppror mot romarna, besegrade en romersk armé och lät sig utropas till kung, men besegrades därefter själv 148 f.Kr. Som en följd av upproret förvandlades Makedonien till en romersk provins.
Källor
- Nationalencyklopedin multimedia plus, 2000
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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip VI Andriskos. 149-148 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.35 g, 12h). Diademed head right, wearing a slight beard / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦIΛIΠΠOY, Herakles, nude, standing left, holding rhyton in his right hand and club in his left, lion's skin hanging on left arm. Zhuyuetang 119 = Triton III, lot 397 (same obv. die); Berk BBS 127, lot 147 (overstruck on Thessalian League drachm). Good VF, lightly toned, overstruck on a Roman Republican denarius of C. Terentius Lucanus (Terentia 10; Crawford 217/1) with bold traces of undertype still visible including the head of Roma, the Dioscuri, and traces of the moneyer's name [TER] LV[C]. Extremely rare, the third known specimen.
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KINGS of MACEDON. Philip VI Andriskos. 149-148 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.35 g, 12h). Diademed head right, wearing a slight beard / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦIΛIΠΠOY, Herakles, nude, standing left, holding rhyton in his right hand and club in his left, lion's skin hanging on left arm. Zhuyuetang 119 = Triton III, lot 397 (same obv. die); Berk BBS 127, lot 147 (overstruck on Thessalian League drachm). Good VF, lightly toned, overstruck on a Roman Republican denarius of C. Terentius Lucanus (Terentia 10; Crawford 217/1) with bold traces of undertype still visible including the head of Roma, the Dioscuri, and traces of the moneyer's name [TER] LV[C]. Extremely rare, the third known specimen.