ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 229-205 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.47 g, 1h). Eukrates, magistrate. Near EF.

Triton XXVII
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ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 229-205 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.47 g, 1h). Eukrates, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; POΔION above; thunderbolt to left, EYKPA-THΣ flanking stem. Ashton 214; HN Online 847; HGC 6, 1432; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen 754; SNG Keckman 547. Attractive golden and iridescent toning, trace find patina. Near EF.

Ex Historical Coin Review XIV.3 (May/June 1989), no. 47.

By the later third century BC, the facing head coins of Rhodes were not as novel as they had been almost two centuries before. Their bold design, however, as well as particularly high relief of the dies sets the Rhodian coinage of this period apart from all others. Moreover, this facing head type, now with the radiate nimbus, remained the standard obverse type for most of the Rhodian issues into the first century AD. The city’s devotion to Helios led it to build a gigantic bronze statue of the sun god, the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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