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<p>[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 6317962, member: 96635"]Amazing coin and very nice write up! Thank you for sharing. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have any Demetrios coin to share, but talking about the siege of Rhodos, I do have a coin of Rhodos that was struck during a siege. Not during Demetrios, but during Mithridates. I still wanted to give it a share. The Rhodians seem to be real good at defending their island.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250318[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Rhodos, Caria. AE, Emergency issue during the Siege of Rhodos, ca. 88 B.C.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Radiate head of Helios right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Ρ - Ο Rose; headdress of Isis to left, thunderbolt to right.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> BMC 321; SNG Cop. 856.</p><p>14.62g; 28mm </p><p><br /></p><p>This coinage was struck during Mithradates VI's failed six-month siege of Rhodes in 88 BC. Unable to produce enough silver for military expenditures, the Rhodians resorted to a fiduciary bronze coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 6317962, member: 96635"]Amazing coin and very nice write up! Thank you for sharing. I don't have any Demetrios coin to share, but talking about the siege of Rhodos, I do have a coin of Rhodos that was struck during a siege. Not during Demetrios, but during Mithridates. I still wanted to give it a share. The Rhodians seem to be real good at defending their island. [ATTACH=full]1250318[/ATTACH] [B]Rhodos, Caria. AE, Emergency issue during the Siege of Rhodos, ca. 88 B.C. Obverse:[/B] Radiate head of Helios right. [B]Reverse:[/B] Ρ - Ο Rose; headdress of Isis to left, thunderbolt to right. [B]Reference:[/B] BMC 321; SNG Cop. 856. 14.62g; 28mm This coinage was struck during Mithradates VI's failed six-month siege of Rhodes in 88 BC. Unable to produce enough silver for military expenditures, the Rhodians resorted to a fiduciary bronze coinage.[/QUOTE]
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