Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 1911 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $600
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SOLD $440
CARIA, Carian Islands, Rhodes, (c.304-265 B.C. Ashton chronology), silver didrachm, (6.590 grams), obv. head of Helios three-quarter face to right with hair loose, rev. rose, with bud on right, [E] and bunch of grapes to left below, above **RODION*, all on flat field, (S.5037, Ashton series 2 [RN 1988, cf.Pl.XVI, 26], SNG Cop.729, SNG Finland 449-460 [similar dies]). Dark tone, nearly very fine and rare.
Richard Ashton (RN 1988 pp.75-90) groups this second type of unrayed head of Helios without a magistrate's name to the date c.304-265 B.C. This a much larger group contains the grapes not attached to rose and is without the the incuse square characteristic of the earlier issue. (Revue Numismatique 1988 p.78-79).
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