Alexander the Great Drachm Coin Pendant

Silver Drachm
14k Gold Pendant
$660
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Coin: Silver Drachm
Obverse: Portrait of Hercules wearing lion’s skin
Reverse: Zeus Sitting on throne, holding a scepter and eagle
Date: 336 - 323 B.C.
Bezel: 14k Gold
Weight:  5.41 grams
Diameter: 17 mm

Description

This item is an authentic Macedonian silver Drachm minted under the rule of Alexander the Great, placed in a handmade bezel of 14 karat gold. There is only 1 of this item; you will receive the exact pendant shown in the photos.  

History of the Artifact

The coin features on the obverse the head of Herakles wearing the skin of the Nemean Lion he killed in one of the famous ‘12 Labors of Hercules” - it is speculated that this rendition of Herakles’ portrait may have been heavily inspired on Alexander’s own features. The reverse features Zeus enthroned holding an eagle and scepter. 

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.

It was in fact during the invasion of Persia that Alexander was able to loot sufficient silver from the enormously wealthy reserves of the Persian Empire to mint these very coins now available to you for purchase! 

These silver reserves plundered from the Persians were so abundant that these Alexander the Great coins became traded everywhere by merchants and Kings throughout the Hellenistic Period. Their quality was so praised for their fine silver content that they became the de facto ‘US dollar' of the time - the currency everyone wanted to trade with. 

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Your order will include:

  • Alexander the Great Coin Pendant shown in photos
  • Certificate of Authenticity
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