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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 4430533, member: 96635&quot;]Plinthophoric can be beautiful, but a good looking front facing Helios always wins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some other Rhodos coins to share next to my above siege of Mithridates Plinthophoric coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/w9oFIL3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Rhodes. Plinthophoric Drachm (Circa 190-170 BC). Magistrate Onasandros.</b></p><p><b>Obverse: </b>Radiate head of Helios right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> ONAΣANΔPOΣ / P - O. Rose with bud to right. Control: Butterfly to left; all within incuse square.</p><p><b>Reference</b>: Jenkins Group A, 5; HGC 6, 1457.</p><p>3.09g; 16mm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/hbUHYyv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Rhodos <b>AR Drachm.</b> 88/42 BC-AD 14. Magistrate Phainilas.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Rose, seen from above; ΦAINIΛAΣ above, P-O across field, akrostolion below.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> Ashton/Weiss, The Post-Plinthophoric Silver Drachms of Rhodes 330 (this coin).</p><p>Ex. Hirsch Nachf. 162, München 1989, Nr. 288.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/WLAKvEx.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Rhodos AR Drachm. Circa 205-190 BC. Magistrate Ainetor.</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 branch bud to right &amp; butterfly to left.</p><p><b>Reference: </b>Ashton 282; SNG Keckman 587; HGC 6, 1453.</p><p>2,28g; 15mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then you also have the Pseudo-Rhodian coins (for example from The Third Macedonian war, The Cretan war and local issues on the coast of Caria):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/XDMjIqX.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Kings of Macedon. temp. Perseus. 179-168 BC. AR Drachm. Third Macedonian War issue. Magistrate Hermias, Uncertain mint in Thessaly (Struck circa 171/0 B.C).</b></p><p><b>Obverse: </b>Head of Helios facing slightly right.</p><p><b>Reverse: </b>Rose with bud to right; EPMIAΣ above, Z-Ω flanking stem.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> Price, Larissa, pl. LV, 247; SNG Keckman 795.</p><p>2.67g; 17mm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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