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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 5298122, member: 91461"]Thanks homeboy.</p><p>Few fun facts:</p><p>Any coins of Spithridates are lifetime Alexander the great coins... but not all Alexander the great lifetime coins are during Spithridates lifetime.</p><p>As the great(ish) just pointed out, after having killed Spithridates brother in battle Spithridates made a bold charge at Alexander while he was still recovering from the engagement aaand as he was swinging his sword at Alexander's head, Cleitus the black cleaved Spithridates arm clean off. And then we have to assume either was finished off or died of his wounds shortly thereafter. As he never would return home.</p><p>And I'm so proud that Curtisimo picked right up on who it was and knew the story. I thought it might be obscure.</p><p>Years later in a drunken brawl with Cleitus, standing up for the name and honor of Alexander's dad, Philip II and not Zeus, Alexander ran Cleitus clean through with a spear. Killing the man who had saved his life at the Granicus.</p><p>"After Tryphon's army had routed some of Demetrius II's soldiers and were chasing them along the coast, a MASSIVE TIDAL WAVE swept Tryphon's army and all of his dreams of being a unified Seleucid King into the ocean."</p><p>That's from a CT article I wrote about tryphling Tryphon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 5298122, member: 91461"]Thanks homeboy. Few fun facts: Any coins of Spithridates are lifetime Alexander the great coins... but not all Alexander the great lifetime coins are during Spithridates lifetime. As the great(ish) just pointed out, after having killed Spithridates brother in battle Spithridates made a bold charge at Alexander while he was still recovering from the engagement aaand as he was swinging his sword at Alexander's head, Cleitus the black cleaved Spithridates arm clean off. And then we have to assume either was finished off or died of his wounds shortly thereafter. As he never would return home. And I'm so proud that Curtisimo picked right up on who it was and knew the story. I thought it might be obscure. Years later in a drunken brawl with Cleitus, standing up for the name and honor of Alexander's dad, Philip II and not Zeus, Alexander ran Cleitus clean through with a spear. Killing the man who had saved his life at the Granicus. "After Tryphon's army had routed some of Demetrius II's soldiers and were chasing them along the coast, a MASSIVE TIDAL WAVE swept Tryphon's army and all of his dreams of being a unified Seleucid King into the ocean." That's from a CT article I wrote about tryphling Tryphon.[/QUOTE]
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