253, Lot: 185. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 88 BC. Æ (28mm, 15.01 g, 12h). Radiate head of Helios right / Rose; hook to left, dolphin and trident to right. Ashton, Coinage 174 (A48/P168); SNG Copenhagen -; HGC 6, 1467. VF, dark green patina.

This coin is from a series struck as an emergency issue during and after the siege of Rhodes by the Pontic king Mithradates VI Eupator.