A Pendant of Alexander The Great, the full Drachma, 14k. HELLENISTIC PERIOD Inscribed on the upper border

Inscribed on the upper border

This kind of icons was usually placed in churches where people could see them

Eastern Orthodox

the leper was instantly healed

The Copper Age in the Ancient Near East began in the late 5th millennium BC and lasted for about a millennium before it gave rise to the Early Bronze Age

A Pendant of Alexander The Great, the full Drachma, 14k. HELLENISTIC PERIOD Inscribed on the upper borderSize: Diameter= 2 cm. Diameter= 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