---
_id: cnp01153774
data:
  actNote:
    - authority: sswd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Personen der Geschichte (Politiker und historische Persönlichkeiten) (16.5p)
      uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#16.5p
    - authority: gnd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Herrscher
      uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4024600-0
    - authority: gnd
      intro: tono
      lang: ger
      text: König
      uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4031516-2
  bioDates:
    - lang: ger
      text: -v317
  extDataset:
    - code: VIAF
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Clustered authority record
      searchTerm: http://viaf.org/viaf/80355291
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: DNBI
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
      searchTerm: http://d-nb.info/gnd/135921503
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: WDAT
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Wikidata description set
      searchTerm: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28935
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: LINK
      note:
        - lang: und
          text: 'Cropped from File:Alexander victory coin Babylon silver c 322 BCE.jpg by PHGCOM <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_victory_coin_Babylon_silver_c_322_BCE.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Alexander_victory_coin_Babylon_silver_c_322_BCE.jpg/220px-Alexander_victory_coin_Babylon_silver_c_322_BCE.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="440" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Alexander_victory_coin_Babylon_silver_c_322_BCE.jpg/330px-Alexander_victory_coin_Babylon_silver_c_322_BCE.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Alexander_victory_coin_Babylon_silver_c_322_BCE.jpg/440px-Alexander_victory_coin_Babylon_silver_c_322_BCE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="821" data-file-height="1642"></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure>"Victory coin" of Alexander the Great, minted in Babylon c. 322 BC, following his campaigns in the Indian subcontinent. <i>Reverse</i>: Alexander attacking king Porus on his elephant. Silver. British Museum.See Keyne Cheshire, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=2-4R0sLEBPgC&amp;pg=PA139#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"><i>Alexander the Great</i></a> (Cambridge University Press, 2009), p.139: "perhaps issued as early as 324 BCE" and depicts "Alexander charges Porus, who hurls a javelin from atop his elephant"'
      rights: 'User PHGCOM / File:Alexander victory coin Babylon silver c 322 BCE.jpg -- CC0 -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porus alexander coin.png'
      searchTerm: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/File:Porus alexander coin.png
      typeOfResource: dpct
  external:
    - auth: GND
      country: DE
      date: 20220912
      id: 135921503
  foundIn:
    - M
    - Pauly neu
  generalNote:
    - lang: ger
      text: 'Indischer König im Pandschab, Gegner Alexanders d. Gr.'
  geoNote:
    - authority: iso3166
      intro: geon
      lang: und
      text: IN
    - intro: ctry
      lang: ger
      text: Indien
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Poros
        - addition: 'Indien, König'
      usedBy:
        - GyFmDB
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: Paurava
        - addition: 'Indien, König'
      typeOfName: varn
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2008-10-28T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2009-08-25T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-05-03T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2022-11-02T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2024-02-08T12:00:00Z
  status: n