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This dissertation was written as part of the MSc in Strategic Product Design at the International Hellenic University. This thesis covers the aspects of Reverse Engineering and Additive Manufacturing regarding the construction of a mould for Great Alexander’s silver Tetradrachm, a coin minted during his reign between 336~323 BC. The coin is located at the Mould Museum of Aristotle University and there the scanning process for obtaining the coin’s 3d data took place with the permission of the museum supervisor. The project will be divided in two segments the theoretical part which will describe the theoretical background of all the manufacturing principles regarding the project’s structure. Subsequently, the experimental part will follow which will incorporate the forementioned processes and by use of cooperative softwaredevices depicts the procedure of replicating the coin and creating moulds out of it. The final purpose of the project is to depict the surface differences between the manufacturing processes.