CN: Tutorial: Coins at Treece museum

value = weight and metal of coin

poured metal into mold then struck to give both sides images

not always accurate

coin makers were paid by coin rather then hour = they wanted to work fast = more mistakes made

coins might have words to send out messages

lion on alexanders head = comparing, imbue himself with those traits

Ptolemy put Alexanders head on coins after Alexanders head

shows an elephant skull on his head

trying to show that the empire is stable

doesn't put his head on coins until 17 years into his reign

Indian elephants from Asia minor

tell its alexander since he's clean shaven = all kings before him had beards

bird = egal showing Athena on back

coins were to show what the person looked like = accurate depiction, wouldn't make themselves prettier

Antiochus = nickname was hooknose

didn't have numbers - they didn't have the numbers to differ

Bactria - conquered by alexander = modern day is Afghanistan

lots of coins with his face on it = probably king for a while = all info about him comes from coins

almost always a mythological scene on the reverse

King Menander Saviour = written on it

they didn't learn the language of where they conquer they make them speak Greek

Menander - sand script on the reverse - showing that Greek was first

King Mithridates: Romania nowadays

King Mithridates Good Father written on reverse

micro dosed himself with poison to become immune = survived his assassination