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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24874872, member: 26430&quot;]Very cool Tetradrachm! I&#039;ve always wanted one of those. Great profile bust of Helios on [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] &#039;s Drachm. That&#039;s another type I need to add...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some of my &quot;Pseudo-Rhodian&quot; types. These are all Drachms (on light standards, under 3g), struck during the Third Macedonian War, probably for mercenaries (especially from Crete) hired by the Macedonian King Perseus to fight the Romans. (He lost.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The mercenaries were familiar with Rhodian coinage, so the design (Helios/Rose) was borrowed -- and sometimes, apparently, even the &quot;magistrate&quot; names! They may have been struck at Thessalian and/or Macedonian mints, rather than in Caria, Rhodos. Other Pseudo-Rhodian types were struck elsewhere in Greece.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>HERMIAS Type Drachm (2.46g):</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1596587[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p>Ex Sitichoro/Larissa, 1968 Hoard (ICGH 237); ex Dr. Lawrence D. Sporty &amp; Lampasas Collections.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><b>STASION Type Drachm (2.65g):</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1596588[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p>Ashton 59b (this coin cited); <i>prob</i>. ex 1992 Thessalonike Area Hoard (CH VIII, 426).</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><b>ARISTOKRATES Type (2.77g):</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1596589[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote>Ashton 79 &quot;plate coin&quot;; ex 1992 Thessalonike Area Hoard (CH VIII, 426).</p><blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1596593[/ATTACH]</p><p>RHJ Ashton. 2002. “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42668203" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42668203" rel="nofollow">Clubs, Thunderbolts, Torches, Stars and Caducei: more Pseudo-Rhodian Drachms from Mainland Greece and the Islands</a>,” <i>Numismatic Chronicle</i> 162: 59-78.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><b>* * *</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also got various much later Roman Provincial Helios types...</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite is this Gordian III Alexandrian Tetradrachm from Giovanni Dattari (1853-1928) Collection, illustrated in Savio (2007), No. 4731.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1596596[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4">This coin also = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3037" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3037" rel="nofollow">RPC VII.2 3874</a>, 8th ex., and this coin cited (as Dattari 4731, but not illustrated): Vogt II (1924), p. 140; Klose &amp; Overbeck (1998) p. 36, No. 97; Sear (2005) <i>RCV</i> vol. 3, No. 8858 (this coin cited); <i>SNG Hunterian </i>(Goddard 2008)<i>, </i>part 2, p. CCCVIII.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My Commodus / Helios Alexandrian Tetradrachm -- also from the Dattari Collection -- is obviously much less attractive (and also less interesting on several numismatic grounds):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1596600[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p>Dattari-Savio (1999/2007) Pl. 210, 9612 (this coin illustrated) = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4.4/3550" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4.4/3550" rel="nofollow">RPC IV.4 3550, ex. 25</a> (this coin illustrated online)</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And others I&#039;d like to show (including standing Helios and Helios countermarks -- or just facing heads on Greek coins in general), but I&#039;ll take a pause for now....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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