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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3273546, member: 96635&quot;]Great coin [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER] very generous cointalk members we have here! Also, interesting write up. I find even that the plinthophoric Rhodos coins are still artistic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some hemidrachms by the way, were still being minted with the head of helios facing. However, they did have an incuse square on the reverse suggesting that the incuse square was introduced to show that the weight of these re-introduced drachms (and fractions) are of the same high standard weight of the Rhodos fractions from the 4th century, which also had an incuse square.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here and example of these high standard 4th century Rhodos coins with the incuse square:</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/93/2937/3020233.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Rhodes AR Didrachm. Circa 340-316 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Rhodos coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the degraded weight of the late drachms with heliot facing and without incuse punch, just before the issue of the plinthophoric coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/WLAKvEx.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Rhodes AR Drachm. Circa 205-190 BC. </b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Facing head of Helios with flowing hair</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Magistrate ΑΙΝΗΤΩΡ (Ainetor) above, P-O below, rose in bloom with side</p><p>branch bud to right &amp; butterfly to left.</p><p>2,28g; 15mm.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here my Lycian league coin which used the plinthophoric Rhodian standard, also with incuse punch. Very interesting that the change in coinage also spread to the mainland of Anatolia. There is convincing evidence that Rhodian and Lycian league&#039;s plinthophoric coinage circulated together, at least informally and they have also been found together in coin hoards.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/C2o75X1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Masikytes, Lycia Hemidrachm - Lycian League (48–23 B.C.). Myra mint.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Laureate head of Apollo right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> M-A, Kithara/Lyre; serpent coiled around omphalos lower left; all within incuse square.</p><p>1.48g; 14mm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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