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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Caria| > |Rhodos| > GS86535
Rhodos, Carian Islands, c. 88 - 84 B.C.
|Rhodos|, |Rhodos,| |Carian| |Islands,| |c.| |88| |-| |84| |B.C.|, Helios was the ancient 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.

The c. 3 gram drachm standard on which this coin is struck, used by Rhodes and other Carian cities, is called 'Plinthophoric' for the square incuse around the reverse type (plinthos = brick or ingot). The archaized incuse reverse revived a characteristic more typical of the 5th century B.C.
GS86535. Silver plinthophoric drachm, Jenkins Rhodian, group E, 246; SNG Cop 836; SNG Keckman 686; SNG Munchen 610; BMC Caria p. 255, 268; HGC 6 1461 (S), VF, well centered, toned, scratches, rough, Rhodos (Rhodes, Greece) mint, weight 2.132g, maximum diameter 15.5mm, die axis 0o, magistrate Maes, c. 88 - 84 B.C.; obverse radiate head of Helios right; reverse rose with a bud on each side of the stem, P - O across fields, MAHC (magistrate Maes) above, Isis crown (control symbol) lower right, all within a shallow incuse square; SOLD










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