Macedonian Coin | Alexander The Great Silver Drachm

History of the Artifact These silver Drachms of Alexander the Great, feature on the obverse the head of Hercules wearing the skin of the Nemean Lion he killed in one of the famous ‘12 Labours of Hercules” - it is speculated that the rendition of Hercules’ portrait may have been heavily inspired on Alexander’s own features. The reverse features Zeus enthroned holding an eagle and sceptre.  As is famously known, Alexander the Great, aged only twenty years became king of Macedonia in 336 B.C., in a matter of years following his crowning, he demonstrated he was perhaps the greatest general of all time and an invincible empire builder. In the course of just thirteen years before his death at Babylon in 323 B.C, he changed the Mediterranean and Near Eastern world forever by bringing the territory of the Persian Empire under Greek rule. These silver reserves plundered from the Persians were so abundant that these Alexander the Great coins became traded everywhere by merchants and Kings throug