Between East and West: Influence and Change in Coinage

Gallery

silver tetradrachm, obverse silver tetradrachm, reverse
Macedonian-Persian Empire, Alexander III the Great (336-23 BC), silver tetradrachm, after 330 BC, Side mint: head of Alexander as Heracles with lion skin r. (obv.); Zeus with eagle and sceptre enthroned to l. (rev.).

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