Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 653. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $125. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 125-88 BC. AR Hemidrachm (1.43 g, 12h). ‘Plinthophoric’ coinage. Melantas, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; MEΛANTAΣ above, statue to lower right; all within incuse square. Jenkins, Rhodian, Group D, 105; SNG Keckman 665 and 668 var. (symbol); SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, hairline flan crack.