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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 7813435, member: 56859&quot;]There are ~600 examples in ACsearch and it looks like this type was struck for centuries.&nbsp; I&#039;m not educated about the fine points of distinguishing eras of these, but after a quick spin through a couple hundred there are certain style/time groupings that stand out--&nbsp; Helios&#039;s hairstyle, how the rose is drawn, small incuse square reverse or not, reverse legend and characters, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the indistinct devices on your coin&#039;s reverse may make nailing down the attribution difficult, but I favor using original attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one from CNG that is concordant with the auction house&#039;s attribution.&nbsp; The flower style is close, Helios&#039;s style close, and the reverse die looks like it was a square (or square-ish) punch.&nbsp; CNG&#039;s catalogers are very good so that lends confidence.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5138219" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5138219" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5138219</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/5058/5138219.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 408/7-390 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 1.76 g, 12h). Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose within incuse square. Ashton 18; HGC 6, 1426. VF, toned, some porosity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Disclaimers:&nbsp; I&#039;m not an expert, and I don&#039;t own any of the reference books used for attributing these coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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