Sale: Triton X, Lot: 359. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 360-340 BC. AR Drachm (3.56 g, 12h). Head of Helios facing slightly right / RODION, rose with bud to each side; I to left; all within incuse square. Ashton 91; Ashton, Solar, n. 7, pl. 3, E; SNG Keckman -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 39 (same obv. die); SNG von Aulock -. EF, attractively toned, slight granularity. Exceptional for issue, struck from dies of superb style. Rare.

From the David Herman Collection.