Question On Alexander the Great's successor kingdoms

I'm putting together a tetradrachm type set from each of the (long lasting) successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great.

My question is, what kingdoms would everyone list for this category?

My thoughts are below;

1) Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
2) the Seleucid Empire
3) Bactria
4) Kingdom of Pergamon
5) Macedon

 

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Don't forget about Lysimachos in Thrace:

 

"Bactria" is an interesting category. Are we thinking Sophyte coinage, Seleucid, or something else? Its kind of a mess really, (I love it).

 

Here’s my first coin of the type set

 

This is a good question, and the answer is very subjective. You can see my attempt here. However, here's a basic list.

1) Ptolemaic Kingdom - definitely.
2) Seleukid Empire - yup
3) Baktria - while I do have a Sophytes coin, it's not typically considered a "successor kingdom" because it was more of a region. After Seleukos I and Chandragupta, no one person ruled this area. Eventually, roughly a hundred years after the death of Alexander, it split up into multiple Greco-Indian states. These are collected because the designs are often interesting, but we know next to nothing about these various kingdoms and they had very little to do with any of the other successor states.
4) Pergamon - sometimes skipped but IMHO this is an important one
5) Antigonid (Macedon is too general) - of course

Other possibilities:
6) Lysimachos - the biggest one you missed
8) Cappadocian
8) Bithynia
9) Chandragupta Maurya - you can't find coins directly attributable to him, but punchmarked coins believed to be from that rough time are cheap
10) Herakleia Pontika - not a full kingdom, but the tyrant Dionysos was heavily involved with the other diadochi
11) Thrace - typically Seuthes III
12) Kyrene - split off from the Ptolemaic under Magas
13) Pontic - while it became independent ~40 years after the death of Alexander, the coins we have a chance at were produced about 150 years later, so I don't include it even though it's historically relevant.

 

Thanks!

And did you forget about the Greco-Bactrian Empire? Ruled under Eucratides I for example.

 

Eukratides ruled about 150 years after Alexander's death. Diododos founded the kingdom in roughly 250 BCE, or 80 years after Alexander's death. IMHO this places it too late to really be considered as a "successor kingdom."

 

Thanks for your opinion! I however include Bactria as the kingdom was founded by the remnants and decedents of Alexander’s army

 

If you're going to use that as the deciding factor, then you'll probably want to add the following:

14) Parthian
15) Orontid
16) Sophene
17) Commagene

 

Keep them coming! This is going to be a fun set to collect

 

When the dust settled around 300 BC, the Diodachi had carved five kingdoms from the remnants of Alexander's empire: Egypt (Ptolemy), Macedonia (Cassander), Thrace (Lysimachus), Syria (Seleucus) and Epirus (Alexander the Molossian). Others, like Pergamon and Bactria, split from the original five a bit later... and on and on throughout the Hellenistic age. Depends on how far you want to take it!

 

Here’s coin #2 of the type set
Kassander

 

Here’s a gif of my posthumous Phillip II . The celator style didn’t degrade too much on these dies.
https://i.imgur.com/Y39Qsce.mp4