Greek Stater Coin of Philip II of Macedon

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Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE in Babylon in 323 BC. Coins had been in circulation for a little less than three hundred years by then, with the innovation beginning in Lydia, then Persia, and flowing to the empires around the Mediterranean from there. This coin was struck by Alexander's father, Philip II of Macedon and the inscription reads reads "ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ" (of/from Philip). Those struck by Alexander have the inscription "ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ" (of/from Alexander). The Greeks had established colonies for hundreds of years by then, but Alexander went further than colonizing and conquered the lands of Persia, Egypt, and further. Within a year of Alexander the Great's death the coins and then the idea (and ideas) behind them, just as Hellenism did, would then flow to Greek colonies around the coasts to far away lands in most modern European, Northern Africa, and Indus Valley (or modern India and Pakistan) from there.