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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 4917639, member: 96635&quot;]Great tetradrachm! I remember that coin going for a very low price, a bargain for that awesome looking Helios.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What an excellent style portrait [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER]! The tetradrachms are indeed not that artistic. Only the old-style tetradrachms are of absolutely wonderful style, and they tend to go for quite some money!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.sixbid-coin-archive.com/images/view/374/333505l.jpg?md5=vm67j3PK1Xo2a_n-hKScXw&amp;expires=1602074393" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Nomos AG, Auction 6, lot 94 (60,000 CHF)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lovely, I like the blue toning.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you! You have a nice hemidrachm and that Knights Hospitaller coin is very interesting. Rhodos has a rich history, in all time era&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both very nice coins, today 100$ would be considered a big bargain for that coin. I like the style a lot, but indeed the large silver coins (and even the smaller ones) tend to go for quite much at auctions. The last coin is also from a interesting time period during the time of Mithradates VI.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]! Your drachm is very cool, there is so much variety in the Rhodian coinage. Looking forward to your next one <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Great drachm [USER=90981]@Shea19[/USER]! We got the same one.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><img src="https://leunumismatik.com/source/images/auction/20/00987q00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><i><b>ISLANDS OFF CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 88-84 BC.</b> </i>Drachm (Silver, 16 mm, 2.08 g, 11 h), &#039;Plinthophoric&#039; coinage, Maes, magistrate. Radiate head of Helios to right. Rev. ΜΑΗΣ / P - O Rose with bud to left; to right, headdress of Isis; all within incuse square. HGC 6, 1461. Jenkins, Rhodian, Group E, 246. SNG Keckman 686.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lovely coin [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]! An example to be proud of.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you Sev! and awesome example yourself. You know which one I miss? Your awesome engraved tetradrachm <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER]. Full noses are hard to find yes! They tend to wear first. My didrachm example has luckily a full nose, but I have another drachm with a flat nose, but the upside of it, is that it is a plate coin.</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><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Great coins! We got the same didrachm!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Very interesting coin [USER=100731]@Roerbakmix[/USER]. Looking at the crude style and the very low weight, I am pretty positive this is a pseudo-Rhodian coin imitating the legit Rhodian coins of the magistrate Gorgos. Your coin would have been minted in an uncertain mint in Thessaly, used to pay Cretan mercenaries during the Third Macedonian war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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