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A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Alexander the Great as Herakles

323-317 BCE

Greek; minted in Sidon, ancient Phoenicia

Macedonia

The front of this coin portrays Alexander the Great wearing Herakles' signature lion skin cloak, facing right.

On the back the god Zeus is shown seated, facing left.

Silver

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium