Description

MACEDONIAN KINGS Alexander III. 336-323 BC. Platted silver Drachm

Obverse: Head of Heracles right, wearing lion-skin headdress.

Reverse: Zeus seated l. holding eagle and sceptre.

Weight and Diameter: 3.35g / 14mm

Comment: There is copper in the middle beneath a thin silver coating which shows us an ancient scam, a counterfeit coin, produced in ancient times to pass in circulation as a silver Drachm.
Very interesting and important piece.