342, Lot: 311. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 88/42 BC-AD 14. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.88 g, 5h). Attic standard. Phainilas, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose, seen from above; ΦAINIΛAΣ above, P-O across field, akrostolion below. Ashton & Weiss 319 (A109/R311); SNG Keckman –; HGC 6, 1456; SNG Lockett 2972 (same obv. die). Superb EF, a touch of porosity at edge on reverse.
From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 3 August 1989.