Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 463. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 88 BC. Æ 30mm (17.59 gm, 11h). Radiate head of Helios right / Rose; headdress of Isis to left, thunderbolt to right. Ashton, Coinage 97 (A30/P96); SNG Keckman -; SNG Copenhagen 856. VF, attractive dark green patina with earthen highlights, slight roughness on reverse. ($300)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

This coinage was struck during Mithradates VI's failed six-month siege of Rhodes in 88 BC. Unable to produce enough silver for military expenditures, the Rhodians resorted to a fiduciary bronze coinage.