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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 998119, member: 19463&quot;]Hellenistic Period – Ptolemy I</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; Time prevents us showing every stop in the history of Greek coinage.&nbsp; The great military leader Alexander the Great died in 323 BC and his empire was divided up by his generals beginning what we term the Hellenistic period.&nbsp; This silver tetradrachm shows a portrait of Ptolemy I whose share of the pie was Egypt.&nbsp;&nbsp; Descendants of each of these generals ruled their regions until they fell to a new power in the Mediterranean: Rome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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