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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Caria| > |Rhodos| > SH80412
Rhodos, Carian Islands, c. 305 - 275 B.C.
|Rhodos|, |Rhodos,| |Carian| |Islands,| |c.| |305| |-| |275| |B.C.|, Helios was the Greek personification of the sun. Each day he drove the chariot of the sun across the sky. The Colossus of Rhodes, the sixth of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was a huge statue of Helios measuring 32 meters (100 feet) high, built at Rhodes in 280 B.C. Rhodes held annual gymnastic games in honor of Helios.
SH80412. Silver didrachm, Ashton Rhodes 158, SNG Keckman 158, BMC Caria p. 233, 35, SGCV II 5038, aVF, Rhodos (Rhodes, Greece) mint, weight 6.617g, maximum diameter 18.0mm, die axis 0o, c. 305 - 275 B.C.; obverse head of Helios facing slightly right, hair loose; reverse POΔION, rose with bud to right, bunch of grapes (control symbol) left, E - Y divided flanking stem; SOLD











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