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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8249809, member: 118780&quot;]That&#039;s a stunning coin and definitely a important reminder of history!</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I did notice a few historical inaccuracies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Kassander didn&#039;t actually stamp out the Argead line. In fact, he propagated it by marrying Thesallonika, half-sister of Alexander the Great. She bore him the sons Antipater II, Philip IV, and Alexander V. Even after his line was wiped out by Pyrrhos and Demetrios, the Argead line wasn&#039;t fully exterminated. Alexander&#039;s sister Kleopatra had two children. Neoptolemos II who was eventually offed by Pyrrhos, and a daughter Cadmeia who lived until adulthood. There&#039;s no record of what happened to Cadmeia.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Technically</i>, Kassander didn&#039;t murder Herakles. Polyperchon did, though he was convinced of this action by Kassander.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The general feeling from the literature is that, though it&#039;s <i>possible</i> Kassander poisoned Alexander, it&#039;s not likely for the following reasons.</p><p>1) The rather detailed records of Alexander&#039;s death are not consistent with poisoning.</p><p>2) Other parties, such as Olympias, had a lot to gain by blaming the Antipatrids for his death.</p><p>3) Had Antipater wanted to kill Alexander, it would have been extraordinary risky to accomplish this through his son.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Polyperchon eventually joined Kassander&#039;s cause and served as a general under him.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While Kassander was allied against Antigonos and Demetrios, he didn&#039;t personally participate in the Battle of Ipsus (though some of his troops did). Therefore, his death probably belongs more to Lysimachos or Seleukos.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll have to reread my copy of Arrian to check this, but it seems unlikely. Kassander continued minting Alexander&#039;s silver coinage and he named his youngest son Alexander. There was also a famous temple at the time with statues of Alexander, Philip II, and Olympias, which Kassander didn&#039;t alter. While there&#039;s plenty of documentation that shows Kassander wasn&#039;t fond of Alexander, his name didn&#039;t seem to be taboo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my Kassander coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453112[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="4"><font face="Book Antiqua">Kassander, 305-298 BC. AE</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Struck under Pleistarchos 301-298 BCE</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453113[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="4"><font face="Book Antiqua">Kassander</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">AE 18 mm, 6.09 g, 11 h</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Amphipolis (?)</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΚΑΣΣΑΝΔΡΟΥ Tripod; to left, monogram; to right, kerykeion.</font></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">McClean 3553. SNG München 1030</font></font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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