Exceptional for Issue

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 370. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Early 1st century AD. Æ 34mm – Drachm(?) (24.56 g, 12h). Sosthenes, magistrate. Facing radiate head of Helios / RO, rose seen from above; SWSQENHS below; all within oak wreath. Ashton, Early 101 (same rev. die); SNG Keckman -; SNG Copenhagen 871; BMC 344; SNG von Aulock -. Near EF, dark green and brown patina. Exceptional for issue. Rare.

From the David Herman Collection.