320 B.C. Greece Silver Tetradrachm, Alexander the Great Antoninus Pius and is made of silver

and is made of silver

the Russian mint quickly discovered that platinum was a hard and unmalleable metal

he served another 11 years as sole emperor

and ended a brief period of civil war known as the Year of the Five Emperors

the design used on coins struck during his lifetime continued to be used on coins throughout his former empire for centuries to come

320 B.C. Greece Silver Tetradrachm, Alexander the Great Antoninus Pius and is made of silverc. 320 B. C. Greece Silver Tetradrachm, Alexander the Great. Moderate wear, strong strike, well centered, dark patch of toning on obverse. 26mm diameter, 17. 1g weight, silver. In 336 B. C., Alexander ascended to the throne of the small kingdom of Macedon in Greece. Less than a decade later, he had conquered half of the known world, building an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to the northwestern corner of India. Poised to invade the