RARE ANCIENT GREEK COIN -LARGE SIZE- EAGLE & SCRIPT ALEXANDER THE GREAT- EUDEMUS

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VERY RARE COLLECTORS COIN
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MAPS OF THIS COINS ORIGIN, THE AREA OF ALEXANDERS CAMPAIGN AND HISTORY OF EUDEMUS
ALEXANDER THE GREATS
INDO-GREEK EMPIRE
VERY RARE, LIMITED GREEK ISSUE COPPER COIN
GREEK EAGLE AND SCRIPT WITH BUST OF EUDEMUS IN COLLAR OF RULER, (EUD-A-MUS IN INDIA)
SEE MAP IN PICTURES
INCLUDED HISTORY TELLS QUITE A STORY OF THE EXPLOITS OF EUDEMUS!
A FAMOUS AND HISTORICAL FIGURE.
A RARE LARGE, HEAVY EXAMPLE THAT SHOWS THE OLDER MINTING PROCESS.
NO TWO HAVE THE SAME SHAPE.
AN EXCELLENT, VERY FINE DETAILED EXAMPLE
A VERY HEAVY 16.2 GRAMS
&
A LARGE 30 MM
A THICK COIN.
WITH A
FINE AGED BROWN PATINA AND OLDER SHAPE.
"IT IS NOTED THAT EUDEMUS USED THE EAGLE FOR HIS BANNER AND ON THE SHIELDS OF HIS ARMY AFTER ALEXANDERS DEATH IN 323 B.C.E."
(PERIPLUS CHAP 47)
ANOTHER GENERAL OF ALEXANDERS ARMY THAT WAS SENT TO EGYPT,
PTOLEMY, ALSO USED THE EAGLE ON HIS COINS. DOUBLE EAGLES OF THE PTOLEMY DYNASTY OF EGYPT (PTOLEMY I 283-305 BC)
EUDEMUS
THEN
( AS RULER AND OVERLORD )
APPOINTED BY ALEXANDER.
HE BECAME AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN THE
NEW INDO-GREEK EMPIRE.
300+ B.C.E.
FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN ASIA INDO-GREEK
CAMPAIGNS OF 'ALEXANDER THE GREAT'
DETAILS BELOW:
OBV:
COLLARED BUST OF EUDEMUS AS
(POWERFUL OVERLORD)
APPOINTED BY ALEXANDER
AND
REV:
GREEK STYLE EAGLE AND SURROUNDING SCRIPT.
GENERAL EUDEMUS:
SOME INTERESTING HISTORY.
**(THIS AND MORE WILL BE INCLUDED WITH YOUR COIN AS WELL AS AS A DETAILED NUMISMATIC CERTIFIED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY, SEVERAL COLOR MAPS SHOWING THIS AREA OF ALEXANDERS CAMPAIGN AND THE OF AREA OF RULE OF EUDEMUS AND THE ORIGIN OF YOUR COIN. ALL SENT IN A PRIORITY MAIL LARGE ENVELOPE SO NOTHING IS FOLDED OR BENT AS
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SOME HISTORY OF EUDEMUS:
AN INTERESTING BUT NOTORIOUS FIGURE OF THE
INDO-GREEK EMPIRE.
EUDEMUS WAS ONE OF ALEXANDERS GENERALS, WHO WAS APPOINTED BY THE KING TO COMMAND ALEXANDERS TROOPS LEFT IN INDIA, AFTER THE MURDER OF THE ALEXANDER-APPOINTED SATRAP PHILIP
(SON OF MACHATAS)
BY HIS OWN MERCENARY TROOPS IN 326 B.C.E.
ALEXANDER DISPATCHED LETTERS TO EUDEMUS AND TAXILES TELLING THEM TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE DISTRICT FORMALLY UNDER PHILIP, UNTIL HE COULD SEND A SATRAP TO GOVERN IT.*HOWEVER AFTER ALEXANDERS DEATH IN 323 B.C.E. EUDEMUS MADE HIMSELF MASTER OF THE TERRITORIES OF THE INDIAN KING PORUS, AND TREACHEROUSLY PUT THAT MONARCH TO DEATH. BY THESE MEANS EUDEMUS BECAME VERY POWERFUL, HE TOPPLED TAXILES GAINED CONTROL OF THE SILVER MINES AND MINT AND RULED THE ENTIRE AREA OF THE NORTHERN DOMINIONS OF THE INDUS, DOWN TO THE JUNCTION OF THE INDUS AND THE ACESINES RIVERS UNTIL HIS DEATH IN BATTLE 316 BC.
THIS COIN WAS MINTED DURING THIS ERA OF EUDEMUS
AND HIS RULE.
EUDEMUS,
ONE OF THE FIRST ALEXANDER APPOINTED RULERS
OF THE GREEK EMPIRE HELD AREAS AT THAT TIME. AN AGGRESSIVE GENERAL OF
ALEXANDER THE GREATS ARMY,
THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST COINS MINTED TO HONOR HIS NEW POSITION AS RULER.
LARGE, HEAVY ISSUE WITH EUDEMUS IN COLLAR OF  RULER.
(PLEASE SEE THE MAP I INCLUDED IN THE PICTURES FOR LOCATION OF THIS AREA OF ALEXANDERS CONQUESTS )
MINTED AT THE THE TAXILA MINT
WITH BILINGUAL LEGEND
( SEE HISTORY BELOW.)
BEAUTIFUL, VERY RARE AND IN
EX FINE CONDITION!
A FINE OLDER ISSUE OF THIS COIN.
ONE OF THE FIRST COINS MINTED OF THIS STYLE.
TYPICAL GREEK EAGLE, SCRIPT AND DESIGN
ANCIENT
COPPER
INDO-GREEK
OR GRAECO-INDIAN KINGDOM
COIN
BACKGROUND:
PRELIMINARY GREEK PRESENCE IN SOUTH ASIA:
AROUND 328 BC, ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONTINUED HIS CAMPAIGN EASTWARD AND CONQUERED THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT AS FAR AS THE HYPASIS RIVER, AND ESTABLISHED SATRAPIES AND FOUNDED SEVERAL SETTLEMENTS, INCLUDING BUCEPHALA; HE TURNED SOUTH WHEN HIS TROOPS REFUSED TO GO FURTHER EAST.
THE INDIAN SATRAPIES OF THE PUNJAB WERE LEFT TO THE RULE OF PORUS AND TAXILES, WHO WERE CONFIRMED AGAIN AT THE TREATY OF TRIPARADISUS IN 321 BC, AND THE REMAINING GREEK TROOPS IN THE SATRAPIES WERE LEFT UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL EUDEMUS. AFTER 321 BC EUDEMUS TOPPLED TAXILES,  HE RULED UNTIL HE WAS KILLED IN BATTLE IN 316 BC. ANOTHER GENERAL ALSO RULED OVER THE GREEK COLONIES OF THE INDUS: PEITHON, SON OF AGENOR, UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR BABYLON IN 316 BC.
THE INDO-GREEK KINGDOM
WAS A HELLENISTIC KINGDOM COVERING VARIOUS PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST REGIONS OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT DURING THE LAST TWO CENTURIES BC, AND WAS RULED BY MORE THAN 30 KINGS, OFTEN IN CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER.
DURING THE TWO CENTURIES OF THEIR RULE, THE INDO-GREEK KINGS COMBINED THE GREEK AND INDIAN LANGUAGES AND SYMBOLS, AS SEEN ON THEIR COINS,
(THIS IS AN EXAMPLE)
AND BLENDED ANCIENT GREEK, HINDU AND BUDDHIST RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, AS SEEN IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF THEIR CITIES AND IN THE INDICATIONS OF THEIR SUPPORT OF BUDDHISM.
THIS COIN IF FROM THIS ERA, A 2,300+ YEAR OLD HISTORICAL TREASURE.
FROM THE TAXILA MINT.
A BEAUTIFUL COIN!
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FROM THE INDO-GREEK ERA CONQUESTS OF INDIA
(MAP INCLUDED IN PICTURES)
THIS VERY OLD BEAUTIFUL COIN HAS VERY NICE  CLEAR, CLEAN DETAILS, AN ADDED BONUS FOR COLLECTORS.
THIS LARGER EXTREMELY RARE ANCIENT
16.2
GRAM 30 MM COPPER COIN IS
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> REFERENCES FOR THIS COIN:
(1)ANCIENT COIN COLLECTING,
(3RD. EDITION) BY WAYNE G. SAYLES.
EASTERN EUROPEAN AND EARLY ASIAN COINS.
INDO-GREEK
INDIA
(2) OFFICIAL WHITMAN GUIDEBOOK OF ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN COINS BY ZANDER H. KLAWANS. PG. 190-195
(3) COLLECTING GREEK COINS BY JOHN ANTHONY PG. 50 AND 88
COINS OF ANCIENT INDIA.
CONQUESTS OF
'ALEXANDER THE GREAT'
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A MUST HAVE FOR YOUR COLLECTION !!!! THIS VERY RARE COIN OF THE INDO-GREEK ERA IN SOUTHERN ASIA IS 2,300+ YEARS OLD! THIS COIN IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THEY WERE VERY VALUABLE COPPER COINS. SEE PICTURES AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF. VERY FINE. A RARE, UNIQUE, LIMITED ISSUE COIN. THIS IS A WONDERFUL BONUS AND ADDS TO THIS COINS COLLECTABILITY. COIN PICTURED IS THE ACTUAL COIN YOU WILL RECEIVE.
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