148, Lot: 180. Estimate $150. Sold for $191. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 408/7-390 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 1.69 g). Three-quarter facing head of Helios, head turned slightly right / Head of the nymph of Rhodes right, in incuse circle. Ashton 12; Ashton, "A Revised Arrangement for the Earliest Coinage of Rhodes," in Carson/Jenkins Essays, pg. 14, 27 (E4/F9); SNG Helsinki 260 var. VF, darkly toned, light proosity. Very rare, only five specimens recorded by Ashton.

From the David Herman Collection.