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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4913569, member: 110350&quot;]I bought this coin (my only one from Rhodes), even though it has a small flan missing some of the design, because I thought the face of Helios on the obverse was quite appealing. Perhaps because it&#039;s a three-quarters view rather than facing more to the front: I find some of the latter to be rather crudely done.</p><p><br /></p><p>Islands of Caria, Rhodos, Rhodes, AR Didrachm, ca. 340-316 BCE. Obv. Head of Helios facing slightly right, hair parted in center and swept to either side / Rev. Rose with bud to right and grape bunch to left [<i>stem connecting bud to rose on right is off flan, as is “E” beneath grape bunch on left</i>], POΔION [RODION] above, all within incuse square. Ashton 98 [Ashton, R., &quot;The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC&quot; in <i>Money and its Uses in the Ancient Greek World</i> (Oxford, 2001), pp. 79 - 115, pls. 6.1 - 6.6.], HGC 6, 1433 [Hoover, Oliver D., <i>Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus), 6th to 1st Centuries BC</i>, <i>Vol 6</i> (Lancaster/London, 2010)].&nbsp; 16 mm., 6.55 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184993[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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