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Message:: [QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8097522, member: 118780"]I've never been the best for words, but I hope you find encouragement in this guy. Antigonos took an arrow through the eye in battle and grew to be such a badass that Kassander, Lysimachos, Seleukos, and Ptolemy had to combine forces to take him down. He finally died in battle - at age 81. [ATTACH=full]1407746[/ATTACH] Antigonos I Monophthalmos Antigoneia 305-300 BCE 28mm 16.33g Head of young Herakles facing right, wearing a lion's skin. / ALEXANDPOY, Zeus enthroned left, holding an eagle and a sceptre, X on left, M on right, Ph below throne. Price 3195, Müller 804 Ex Mike Vosper Here's another angle. The guy on the ground is cancer (yes, in this case cancer may be Macedonian) and you're the guy (Paeonian cavalry) on the horse. [ATTACH=full]1407750[/ATTACH] Kings of Paeonia, Patraos AR Tetradrachm 12.46g, 24mm, 1h. Uncertain Paeonian mint (Astibus or Damastion?) circa 335-315 BCE Laureate head of Apollo to right / Warrior on horse rearing to right, spearing enemy who defends himself with raised shield; bukranion to left, ΠATPAOY (retrograde) around. Paeonian Hoard I, 227 (same dies). Ex Roma[/QUOTE]