Alexander the Great, Posthumous Bronze Unit - 323 to 317 BCE - Macedon/Greece - 12/6/23 Auction

Includes glass top display box. Obverse: Head of beardless Heracles right wearing lion skin headdress Reverse: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Nude youth on horseback to left Attribution: Price 372 (From the British Museum catalogue "Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus" by Martin J. Price) This Macedonian bronze coin was minted in the name of Alexander III, better known as Alexander the Great.Alexander's military prowess firmly cemented him into legend. At just sixteen, Alexander lead the Macedonian army to a swift win against a Thracian uprising. He not only drove them out, but colonized their territory with Greek settlers and renamed it Alexandropolis.Of course, this same boy would grow up to conquer Greece, Egypt, Persia, and everything in between. But Alexander had a dark side. He was known for being power hungry and tyrannical, often torturing and killing those who spoke against him. Nevertheless, Alexander was struck down suddenly from unknown causes at the age