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Message:: [QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 3897331, member: 96635"]Great coins [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] and as usual a fun write up. I wonder what would have happened if Alexander lived until the time of Pyrrhos and he would have joined the expedition into Rome. I think in 323 BC, Rome was not such a threat yet and Alexander wouldn't have bothered to go there. But later on, who knows... I also think the biggest downfall of the diadochi and all the other Greek city states is that they were constantly fighting eachother, so much resources and unity lost. All Rome had to do is look and watch and then pick up the fruit afterwards without too much problems. Here is a Macedonian coin minted during the late reign of the Antigonid dynasty:<img src="https://i.imgur.com/bbjjYKU.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Kingdom of Macedon. temp. Philip V – Perseus. 187-168 BC. Serrate Æ. Amphipolis mint.Obverse: Diademed head of Poseidon right.Reverse: ΜΑΚΕ-ΔΟΝΩΝ. Club; one monogram below and above; all within wreath.  Reference: AMNG 48; SNG Cop. -, vergl. 1297; Hoover 328.10.75g; 25mm[/QUOTE]