CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series on Ancient Counterfeiters by Mike Markowitz …. Of all the successors of Alexander the Great, the family of Ptolemy, son of Lagos, was the most successful, ruling Egypt for nearly three centuries (305 – 30 BCE). Oddly enough, the story begins with a hijacking. When Alexander died in Babylon on 10 June 323 BCE, his corpse, […]
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