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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8280781, member: 118780&quot;]Things have been incredibly busy at work and at home lately. I still have a good number of coins to add to my database and to my website, but it will be several weeks before I can get to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, I&#039;ve been thinking about the &#039;overachievers&#039; of the ancient times. If you were conducting job interviews to run the kingdom and expand it a bit, who would you hire?</p><p><br /></p><p>The obvious answer for me is Alexander the Great, who conquered half the known world in ten years. Had he lived another ten, he probably would have grabbed the other half. This is one of his less common lifetime coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462459[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Alexander III &#039;the Great&#039; AR Diobol</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">&#039;Amphipolis&#039;, circa 336-323 BCE</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Young head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, two eagles standing facing one another on thunderbolt.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Price 155; HGC 3.1, 906. 1.32g, 11mm, 3h.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Beyond that, I ran a blank. The best of the Diadochi merely stayed alive. That goes for most of the others during that era.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think Aurelian would have been a good applicant. I have one of his coins, but photographing it is still on my todo list...</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s see your overachievers![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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