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Philip Ii Of Macedon
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Economic Reforms and Metallurgy
Philip's financial solvency was legendary, often attributed to the wealth extracted from the Pangaean gold mines. He oversaw a significant standardization of coinage, introducing the celebrated Philippic Stater, a gold coin noted for its consistent weight and the remarkable absence of any intentional surface defects—a feature historians believe was meant to subconsciously signal Macedonian stability to uncertain trading partners [7].
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