CNG 109, Lot: 182. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 88/42 BC-AD 14. AR Drachm (20.5mm, 4.03 g). Attic standard. Radiate head of Helios facing slightly left / Rose seen from above; grain ear above, palm frond below. Ashton & Weiss 103 (this coin, illustrated); HGC 6, 1456. Near EF, lightly toned, hairline flan crack.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (14 December 2005), lot 90; 1987 or early 1988 Unknown Findspot Hoard (CH VIII, 546).