For example, a tetradrachm from 323 B.C. was issued after the death of Alexander the Great and ... the design of new coins was a mix of vanity and strategy. For example, a silver denarius from ...

The Trump-named cryptocurrency is valued at more than $6 billion after its first week, but it mimics moves made by ancient leaders.

Browse 16,300+ ancient coins ... silver; 4) Tetradrachme of Elis, Zeus and eagle, c.400 BC; 5) Decadrachm of Syracuse, Sicily, c.400 BC; 6) Gold stater with portraoit of Phillip II of Macedon, ca. 340 ...

The designs of this “Siculo-Punic” tetradrachm of late in the fourth century B.C. were copied from issues of Syracuse, the most powerful Greek city ... B.C. Many silver coins are associated ...

Alexander the Great is said to have rejected a colossal Mount Athos project that could have been the eighth wonder of the ...

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

John Moore/Getty Images Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great” — agrees that Darius I was a formidable ruler, who tolerated other religions. “But I’d say as a Greek historian that ...

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