Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter
see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Alexander the Great Silver Tetradrachm, Hellenistic Period, c. 315 - 294 BCE Medium - Glass Berlin and New York: WalterAlexander the Great Silver Tetradrachm Kingdom of Macedon, Hellenistic Period, ca. 315294 BCE Tarsos Mint, Cilicia (modern Turkey) Lifetime issue. NCG CH F 5 5 2 5, brushed. The obverse depicts a portrait of Heracles, the greatest warrior hero of ancient Greek mythology, facing right, wearing the famed lion skin headdress. The reverse depicts the divine Zeus, king of the Gods on Mount Olympus and father of Heracles, seated on a throne facing left, one