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Announcer: Welcome to the Bachelorette, Macedonian edition! Our special someone today is none other than Kleopatra of Macedon, full sister of Alexander the Great! She’s had a difficult life as of late. Her father was murdered on her wedding night, her famous brother perished from who-knows-what in Babylon, her husband was betrayed by his own…

I bought this coin last year in order to fill in my Polyperchon page in my Philip II, Alexander III, and the Age of the Diadochi collection. This is a relatively common coin, and I’m far from the first to display one here. However, after reading quite a bit on this period, I’m beginning to…

Once upon a time (or more specifically, 332 BCE), there were four little Phoenicians. The first little Phoenician was named Gerostratos of Arados. He built his city of stone on a small island off the coast of what is now Lebanon. The second little Phoenican’s name was Urimilk III, and his city was named Byblos. He had a…

A long, long time ago (roughly 2300 years) in a kingdom far, far away (Bithynia in modern day Turkey), lived a king named Nikomedes I. He is pictured on this coin, and had a problem. His issue was with his brother Zipoetes II. You see, for some reason Zipoetes felt that Nikomedes had bad intentions….