Object Description
A fine Alexander the Great silver drachm pendant featuring a drachm coin set in a modern 18kt gold frame, with a loop attached at the top for suspension. The frame displays a London hallmark, hand crafted by a Hatton garden jeweller. The front of the pendant features the coin’s obverse, which depicts the profile head of Alexander the Great dressed as Herakles, wearing the Nemean lion-skin headdress. The reverse displays the Greek god Zeus enthroned to the left, holding an eagle in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. The Greek legend AΛEΞANΔPOΥ (Alexandrou) is written vertically to the right. Written in the genitive case Alexandr -ou, the inscription translates as ‘[the coinage] of Alexander’.
Date: Circa 336-323 BC