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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4422140, member: 99456&quot;]Nice coins [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER], [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER], [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] and [USER=71514]@Pishpash[/USER].&nbsp; Here&#039;s a sunny Helios, on a drachm of the Carian Islands, one of several coins I&#039;ve picked up from the time period of the First Mithridatic War and Sulla.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1108846[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Islands off Caria</b>, Rhodes, circa 88-84 BC, AR Drachm, ‘Plinthophoric’ coinage, Euphanes, magistrate</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Radiate head of Helios right</p><p><b>Rev: </b> EYΦANHΣ above, Ρ / Ο on either side of rose with bud to left; below to right, Isis crown; all within shallow square incuse</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Jenkins, Rhodian,<a href="http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=156" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=156" rel="nofollow"> Group E, 240</a>; HGC 6, 1461[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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