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First Persian Empire (NGC Slab) (Ng)

$134.64

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The Achaemenid Empire—the First Persian Empire—is one of the greatest empires of antiquity. From its founding by Cyrus the Great, the Achaemenid dynasty includes such notables as Darius the Great and Xerxes the Great. The fifth century BC includes two of the most famous battles in all of history: the Battle of Marathon, when the Greeks repulsed the Persian invasion in 490 BC, and the Battle of Thermopylae of ten years later, when a coalition of Greeks led by the King of Sparta defeated Xerxes I.--This silver siglos circulated in Persia during the fifth century BC. The obverse shows a hero-king with a bow and a dagger; on the reverse is the incuse punch.

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The Achaemenid Empire—the First Persian Empire—is one of the greatest empires of antiquity. From its founding by Cyrus the Great, the Achaemenid dynasty includes such notables as Darius the Great and Xerxes the Great. The fifth century BC includes two of the most famous battles in all of history: the Battle of Marathon, when the Greeks repulsed the Persian invasion in 490 BC, and the Battle of Thermopylae of ten years later, when a coalition of Greeks led by the King of Sparta defeated Xerxes I.--This silver siglos circulated in Persia during the fifth century BC. The obverse shows a hero-king with a bow and a dagger; on the reverse is the incuse punch.

Coins in pictures are examples only.

The Achaemenid Empire—the First Persian Empire—is one of the greatest empires of antiquity. From its founding by Cyrus the Great, the Achaemenid dynasty includes such notables as Darius the Great and Xerxes the Great. The fifth century BC includes two of the most famous battles in all of history: the Battle of Marathon, when the Greeks repulsed the Persian invasion in 490 BC, and the Battle of Thermopylae of ten years later, when a coalition of Greeks led by the King of Sparta defeated Xerxes I.--This silver siglos circulated in Persia during the fifth century BC. The obverse shows a hero-king with a bow and a dagger; on the reverse is the incuse punch.

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire,[16] also known as the Persian Empire[16] or First Persian Empire[17] (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire'[18] or 'The Kingdom'[19]), was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it was the largest empire by that point in history, spanning a total of 5.5 million square kilometres (2.1 million square miles). The empire spanned from the Balkans and Egypt in the west, most of West Asia, the majority of Central Asia to the northeast, and the Indus Valley to the southeast.[12][13]

Around the 7th century BC, the region of Persis in the southwestern portion of the Iranian plateau was settled by the Persians.[20] From Persis, Cyrus rose and defeated the Median Empire as well as Lydia and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, marking the establishment of a new imperial polity under the Achaemenid dynasty.

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