304, Lot: 106. Estimate $150. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 205-200 BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 2.50 g, 6h). Cretan War issue. Cretan or Rhodian mint; Ainetor, magistrate. Head of Helios facing slightly left / Rose with bud to right; [AINHTΩP above, caduceus to left, control letters or monograms in fields]. Ashton 339; Ashton, Crete, Issue 6A, pl. B, 16 (same obv. die); SNG Keckman 593–4; SNG Copenhagen 537. VF, toned, struck with very worn reverse die.

From the Demetrios Armounta Collection. Ex Heritage (6 January 2007), lot 50062.

Ashton notes that this issue was likely struck by Rhodian commanders during the Cretan war (see Ashton, Clubs, pp. 77-78).