Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 482. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos, Rhodes. After 27 BC. AR Drachm (2.97 gm, 12h). Cistophoric standard. Radiate facing head of Helios / RODIwN, open rose seen from above. Ashton & Weiss, "The Post-Plinthophoric Silver Drachms of Rhodes," NC 1997, pg. 37, 1ff (unlisted dies); SNG Helsinki 771; RPC I 2744; BMC Caria -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 2840. EF, beautiful iridescent toning, bump on left cheek. Very rare. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.