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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 65680, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Purple and Conquered the World</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If PCGS says so, that&#039;s good enough for me.&nbsp; With the Alexander movie there is even more interest in these coins.&nbsp; Alexander in ancient times was better known than Caesar and many Caesars sought to emulate Alexander.&nbsp; Commodus appeared in the circus as &quot;Hercules&quot; i.e., as Alexander and Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, when he became emporer, called himself Alexander -- written out or abbreviated ALEXAND -- whereas his coins may or may not call him Septimus, Marcus Aurelius, or Severus, and those are abbreviated to only three letters.&nbsp; The point being that he wanted himself identified with Alexander in the eyes of the people of his empire.&nbsp; Alexander the Great was made the 13th God of Olympus by the Roman senate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander the Great was worshipped as a god in his own lifetime, a practice he encouraged -- or failed to discourage, or whatever you choose to believe.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The one fact we can agree on:&nbsp; He conquered the world -- or at least the Persian fraction of it -- before he was 30.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Much more than you probably wanted to know already, but there is still more...</p><p>Main Author:&nbsp; Marotta, Michael E. </p><p>Title:&nbsp; Portraits and representations of Alexander the Great. </p><p>In: The Celator, Vol. 16, no. 7 (July 2002), p. 6-20 : ill. )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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