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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7951581, member: 110350"]Beautiful coins! Here's my plinthophoric drachm:</p><p><br /></p><p>Islands off Caria, Rhodes, AR Plinthophoric Drachm (ca. 188-170 BCE), Artemon, magistrate. Obv. Radiate head of Helios right / Rev. Incuse square containing rose with bud right, Isis crown in left field, APTEMΩΝ above, P - O across fields. Jenkins, Rhodian, Group A [ca.188-170 BCE], No. 20 [Jenkins, G. "Rhodian Plinthophoroi - a Sketch" in Kraay-Mørkholm Essays (1989), pp. 101-119, pls. XXIX-XXXIV); HNO [<i>Historia Numorum Online</i>] 1999 (temp.) (see <a href="http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=1999" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=1999" rel="nofollow">http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=1999</a>); BMC Caria 253 at p. 253 [Head, Barclay V., <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Caria, Cos, Rhodes, etc.</i> (London 1897)]; SNG Keckman 640 [Westermark U. and Ashton R., <i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Finland, The Erkki Keckman Collection in the Skopbank, Helsinki, Part 1: Karia</i> (Helsinki, 1994); SNG Copenhagen 813 var. (symbol of shield on rev.) [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Volume 5: Ionia, Caria & Lydia (Parts 22 - 28) (West Milford, NJ, 1982).</i>)]; HGC 6, 1457 [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)]. 16x17 mm., 3.04 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1377699[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I find a lot of the coins showing Helios facing forward to be rather unattractive, even the ones that don't have the nose smooshed -- it seems that rendering an attractive forward-facing view was beyond the skills of many engravers at the time. So I gladly bought the one I did even though some of the design is off the flan:</p><p><br /></p><p>Islands off 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., "The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC" 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)]; HNO [<i>Historia Numorum Online</i>] 813 (temp.) (see <a href="http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=813" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=813" rel="nofollow">http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=813</a>). 16 mm., 6.55 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1377700[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7951581, member: 110350"]Beautiful coins! Here's my plinthophoric drachm: Islands off Caria, Rhodes, AR Plinthophoric Drachm (ca. 188-170 BCE), Artemon, magistrate. Obv. Radiate head of Helios right / Rev. Incuse square containing rose with bud right, Isis crown in left field, APTEMΩΝ above, P - O across fields. Jenkins, Rhodian, Group A [ca.188-170 BCE], No. 20 [Jenkins, G. "Rhodian Plinthophoroi - a Sketch" in Kraay-Mørkholm Essays (1989), pp. 101-119, pls. XXIX-XXXIV); HNO [[I]Historia Numorum Online[/I]] 1999 (temp.) (see [URL]http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=1999[/URL]); BMC Caria 253 at p. 253 [Head, Barclay V., [I]A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Caria, Cos, Rhodes, etc.[/I] (London 1897)]; SNG Keckman 640 [Westermark U. and Ashton R., [I]Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Finland, The Erkki Keckman Collection in the Skopbank, Helsinki, Part 1: Karia[/I] (Helsinki, 1994); SNG Copenhagen 813 var. (symbol of shield on rev.) [[I]Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum, Volume 5: Ionia, Caria & Lydia (Parts 22 - 28) (West Milford, NJ, 1982).[/I])]; HGC 6, 1457 [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)]. 16x17 mm., 3.04 g. [ATTACH=full]1377699[/ATTACH] I find a lot of the coins showing Helios facing forward to be rather unattractive, even the ones that don't have the nose smooshed -- it seems that rendering an attractive forward-facing view was beyond the skills of many engravers at the time. So I gladly bought the one I did even though some of the design is off the flan: Islands off 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., "The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC" 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)]; HNO [[I]Historia Numorum Online[/I]] 813 (temp.) (see [URL]http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=813[/URL]). 16 mm., 6.55 g., 12 h. [ATTACH=full]1377700[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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