Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 869. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 125-88 BC. AR Hemidrachm (1.46 g, 12h). ‘Plinthophoric’ coinage. Melantas, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right; MEΛANTAΣ above, thunderbolt to left. Jenkins, Rhodian, Group D var. (unlisted symbol); SNG Keckman 666-7 var. (same); SNG Copenhagen 821 var. (same). EF.