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415, Lot: 208. Estimate $200.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Lampsakos(?). Memnon of Rhodes. Mid 4th century BC. AR Drachm (14.5mm, 3.24 g, 11h). Pseudo-Rhodian type. Youthful head of Helios left on radiate solar disk / Rose with buds to either side; M-E flanking. Cf. Ashton, Solar 9–15 (unlisted dies); SNG BN –; SNG Ashmolean 671. VF, find patina, light scuff on obverse.


This series of “solar disk” drachms has been variably attributed to Megiste, Nisyros, and Euthana. Recent hoard evidence, as well as single finds, has prompted a reattribution of this issue to a location in the Troad, probably Lampsakos (See Ashton, Memnon, pp. 11-15).