Rare Stasion Civic Issue
ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 205-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 13.45 g, 12h). Stasion, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; ΣTAΣIΩN above, snake coiled around omphalos to left, P-O flanking stem. Ashton 261; HGC 6, 1422. Toned, underlying luster. EF. Very rare, only three in CoinArchives.
Ex MACM inventory MMoCA20C; Classical Numismatic Group 82 (16 September 2009), lot 637.
The magistrate Stasion is one of a handful of magistrates whose name appears on both these civic tetradrachms and the Alexander type tetradrachms that were struck in the same period on Rhodes. Stasion’s Alexanders are quite numerous, but his civic issue is quite rare.
