Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 659. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 125-88 BC. AR Hemidrachm (1.47 g, 12h). ‘Plinthophoric’ coinage. Melantas, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to left; MEAANT[AΣ] (sic) above, aryballos to lower right; all within incuse square. Jenkins, Rhodian, Group D, 234 var. (spelling of name); SNG Keckman 665 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen -. Near EF, toned, traces of die rust on obverse.