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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4294628, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ll offer five coins of Rhodes with the idea of hitting multiple price brackets but not the highest.&nbsp; Perhaps someone else has the gold???</p><p>Earliest from me is a toned facing head AR hemidrachm (394-387 BC - 1.6g) At this point the reverse would be termed an incuse square but not &#039;Plinthophoric&#039;. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093220[/ATTACH]</p><p>This AR didrachm (304-164 BC - 6.6g) before the &#039;Plinthophoric&#039; period has Helios 3/4 facing and a rose under the city name (ethnic).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093221[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From the &#039;Plinthophoric&#039; group is a hemidrachm (167-88 BC - 1.3g) is rather like Shea19&#039;s coin but has the 3/4 head and a different magistrate rendered in very small letters.&nbsp; There are many magistrates with similar names and I must warn that gamma and rho are hard to separate at this size unless you have high grade coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093222[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next is an AE27 (167-88 BC - 15.58g)&nbsp; I have no idea how many of these equalled a hemidrachm. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093240[/ATTACH]</p><p>I would not show this last one since it is not a rose but it is my favorite of the city.&nbsp; This AE36 (nice hunk of bronze!) comes from the Roman period (31 BC-60 AD - 25.8g) and bears magistrate names as well as the ethnic on the reverse. The gently curved reverse die would have been better had the strike been more firm.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093272[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Want list:&nbsp; Does anyone have a bronze of Rhodes with the face of Nero?&nbsp; Several have sold but not to me...yet.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=327723" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=327723" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=327723</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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