Cretan War Issue

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 366. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 205-200 BC. AR Drachm (2.18 g, 12h). Cretan War issue. Cretan or Rhodian mint; Ainetor, magistrate. Head of Helios facing slightly left / R-O, rose with bud to right; caduceus to left, [A]INHTWR above. Ashton, Crete 6A; SNG Keckman 593-594; SNG Copenhagen 537; BMC 155; SNG von Aulock -. EF, toned.

From the Sunrise Collection.

Ashton notes that this issue was likely struck by Rhodian commanders during the Cretan war (see Ashton, Clubs, pp. 77-78).