Alexander The Great, half Drachma, ancient coin. gold and pottery oil lamps offered

and pottery oil lamps offered an alternative to candlelight

"this poor widow has put in more than all the others

The opportunity to strike coins there returned during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527 to 565)

Size: standard diameter= 2cm

Alexander The Great, half Drachma, ancient coin. gold and pottery oil lamps offeredSize: diameter= 1. 5cm. (0. 7) inch. Drachms were the second most common Alexander silver denomination. Price illustrated 434 official Alexander drachms compared with 1,269 official tetradrachms that he illustrated. Though Price didn't estimate the number of tetradrachms minted, he did estimate the number of Alexander drachms minted in Asia Minor (where the vast majority of their production occurred) at 55 million, using a figure of 20,000 coins per