253, Lot: 184. Estimate $100. Sold for $132. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 88 BC. Æ (25mm, 14.22 g, 12h). Radiate head of Helios right / Rose; serpent in phiale to left, winged kerykeion to right. Ashton, Coinage 27-33 (A11/P- [unrecorded rev. die]); SNG Copenhagen -; HGC 6, 1467. VF, dark green patina.

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.