This is surely the meaning of the minting of a second series of silver coins bearing his name and traditional Macedonian symbols, the head of Heracles on the face and on the reverse, Olympian Zeus, sitting on the throne.
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Monunius allied with Thrace, had waged a war against Ptolemy for the Macedonian throne short time before the invasion of the Gauls while the true political reason why the alliance was rejected is not known.
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About 280 BC, according to Diodorus and Pausanias, they moved in three directions: toward Macedonia and Illyria, toward Greece, and toward Thrace.
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