Description: Kingdom of Macedon 336-323BC "Alexander the Great" NGC AU 3x4 Description Kingdom of Macedon Alexander III "The Great" 336-323BC AV stater (Lifetime-early posthumous) NGC AU 3x4! Head of Athena helmet of Corinthian. Reverse Nike standing left, wreath in right hand. This is a beautiful problem-free and high grade example of gold coinage issued in the reign of Alexander III (The Great). It is an AV Stater from the Kingdom of Macedon as certified and graded by NGC as genuine and in AU, or Almost Uncirculated condition with a Good Strike (3) and Excellent Surface (4). This coin features the Head ofAthena right, in triple-crested Corinthian helmet on the Face and, AΛEΞANΔΡOY,Nike standing left, holding wreath in extended hand, stylus in other; head of atrident at left on the Reverse. Alexander III of Macedon (Ancient Greek:Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Alexandros;20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great,[a] was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.[a] He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.[2] He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders.[3][4]Until the age of 16, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle. In 335 BC, shortly after his assumption of kingship over Macedon,he campaigned in the Balkans and reasserted control over Thrace and Illyria before marching on the city of Thebes, which was subsequently destroyed in battle. Alexander then led the League of Corinth,and used his authority to launch the pan-Hellenic project envisaged by his father, assuming leadership over all Greeks in their conquest of Persia.[5][6]In 334 BC, he invaded the Achaemenid Persian Empire and began a series of campaigns that lasted for 10 years. Following his conquest of Asia Minor, Alexander broke the power of Achaemenid Persia in a series of decisive battles, including those at Issus and Gaugamela; he subsequently overthrew Darius III and conquered the Achaemenid Empire in its entirety.[b] After the fall of Persia, the Macedonian Empire held a vast swath of territory between the Adriatic Sea and the Indus River. Alexander endeavored to reach the"ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea" and invaded India in 326 BC, achieving an important victory over Porus, an ancient Indian king of present-day Punjab, at the Battle of the Hydaspes.Due to the demand of his homesick troops, he eventually turned back at the Beas River and later died in 323 BC in Babylon, the city of Mesopotamia that he had planned to establish as his empire's capital. Alexander's death left un-executed an additional series of planned military and mercantile campaigns that would have begun with a Greek invasion of Arabia. In the years following his death, a series of civil wars broke out across the Macedonian Empire, eventually leading to its disintegration at the hands of the Diadochi.With his death marking the start of the Hellenistic period,Alexander's legacy includes the cultural diffusion and syncretism that his conquests engendered, such as Greco-Buddhism and Hellenistic Judaism.He founded more than twenty cities, with the most prominent being the city of Alexandria in Egypt.Alexander's settlement of Greek colonists and the resulting spread of Greek culture led to the overwhelming dominance of Hellenistic civilization and influence as far east as the Indian subcontinent.The Hellenistic period developed through the Roman Empire 31
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