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<p>[QUOTE="Archilochus, post: 3157030, member: 96154"]Ha, I know what you're saying. Although the stories behind them are probably interesting. I read somewhere that one of the reasons Alexander wanted to pay his soldiers & mercenaries in these port cities of Asia Minor, rather than in Babylon/Susa/Tyre or wherever else they happened to be, is that he wanted them to go home! He didn't want a Mamertine-like situation to emerge, in which his deadly former employees decided to hang around and potentially cause trouble. So he made them go 90% of the way back to Greece if they wanted to get paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't help but wonder when I see these EF drachms coming to market: the soldier who buried these, why didn't he go home and spend his money into circulation? Perhaps he wheeled around and joined some faction in the wars of the Diadochi, and things didn't work out for him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Archilochus, post: 3157030, member: 96154"]Ha, I know what you're saying. Although the stories behind them are probably interesting. I read somewhere that one of the reasons Alexander wanted to pay his soldiers & mercenaries in these port cities of Asia Minor, rather than in Babylon/Susa/Tyre or wherever else they happened to be, is that he wanted them to go home! He didn't want a Mamertine-like situation to emerge, in which his deadly former employees decided to hang around and potentially cause trouble. So he made them go 90% of the way back to Greece if they wanted to get paid. I can't help but wonder when I see these EF drachms coming to market: the soldier who buried these, why didn't he go home and spend his money into circulation? Perhaps he wheeled around and joined some faction in the wars of the Diadochi, and things didn't work out for him.[/QUOTE]
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