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Caria-Rhodes, AR Hemidrachm, c.400-350 BC
(No legend)
Head of Helios facing slightly right
POΔION
Rose, grapevine tendrils in fields with bunch of grapes at left and
right, all in incuse square
10mm x 12mm, 1.69g
cf. SNG Keckman 369-74 (control); SNG Kayhan --; SNG von Aulock --; SNG
Copenhagen 723; cf. SNG Munich 569-70 (control); cf. Karl 402-6 (control)
Note: The study on this coinage is R. Ashton. “The Coinage of Rhodes
408-c.190 BC” in Money and its Uses in the Ancient Greek World (Oxford,
2001), which I neither have, nor have access to a copy.
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Caria-Rhodes, AR Hemidrachm, c.275-250 BC
(No legend)
Head of Helios facing slightly right
POΔION
Rose, bud to right, prow at left, AΠ monogram below
12mm, 1.45g
Ashton 22; SNG Keckman 486
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