182, Lot: 76. Estimate $300. Sold for $185. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 88 BC. Æ 27mm (15.50 g). Radiate head of Helios right / Rose; helmet to left; thunderbolt to right. Ashton,
Coinage 109-117 (A45/P); SNG Copenhagen 856; SNG Keckman 731 var. (symbols). VF, green patina, a few adjustment marks under the patina, some cleaning scratches on the surfaces revealing bare metal.
This coin is from a series struck as an emergency issue during and after the siege of Rhodes by the Pontic king Mithradates VI Eupator