It is the obverse of a tetradrachm struck for Alexander the Great in Babylonia around 325–323 BCE, toward the end of his reign and life. ... Heracles’s head in the silver coin, ...

This large silver coin originated from Ancient Greece. "It's known as a tetradrachm and this example would have been minted during the reign of Alexander the Great in circa 336-323 BC.

Images from the new book “The 100 Greatest Women on Coins. ... $29.95), showcases coins with female faces, starting with a bust of Athena on a silver tetradrachm of Athens (454-404 B.C.).

Millions of silver coins may have been stored in the attic of the Parthenon,one of the most famous structures from the ancient world, a research team says. The attic of the Parthenon is now ...

The coin also illustrates an important feature of many of the posthumous issues: Alexander is given the title basileus or king. The title may have been used as early as 329 BCE, but it became common ...

The impeccably well-preserved tetradrachm coins — large silver coins commonly used in the ancient Greek world — are from the reign of Ptolemy VI, who ruled Egypt at the same time Epiphanes ...

Dozens of gold and silver coins, some from the eras of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, spent decades on a shelf in the University at Buffalo's library.

Weiss was arrested Jan. 3 at a coin auction at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York after he tried to sell what was thought to be a silver tetradrachm, a Greek coin from the fourth century B.C., at ...

Millions of silver coins may have been stored in the attic of the Parthenon, ... The highest-denomination coin minted in Athens at the time was a silver tetradrachm, ...