Ancient Greece 1 Drachma - Alexander the Great

Alexander III, known as Alexander the Great, was King of Macedonia, Pharaoh of Egypt and King of Persia.
Alexander was tutored by the philosopher Aristotle until he was 16, when he was appointed regent by Philip after he went to war against Byzantium.

One day, a merchant from Thessaly tried to sell Philip a horse, but since it refused to be ridden, Philip dismissed it. However, Alexander (who was about 10 years old) noticed that the horse was frightened and claimed that he could tame the animal, which he eventually did. Philip decided to offer the horse to Alexander, who named it Bucephalus (ox-headed). Bucephalus became Alexander's main horse, even accompanying him on his campaigns in India. He eventually died at the age of 30, due to old age. Alexander named a city after himself, Bucephala, in present-day Pakistan.

The drachma

The drachma was an ancient monetary unit found in many Greek city-states and successor states, and in many Middle Eastern kingdoms of the Hellenistic period.
The term has also been used to define three modern Greek monetary units - the first introduced in 1832 and the last replaced by the euro in 2001 (at a rate of 340.750 drachmas to 1 euro). The drachma was the oldest currency still in circulation in the world until it was replaced by the euro.