Item Sold At Auction #5
Web Product ID: 1443
Estimate: $400.00
Final Sale Price: $330.00
Denomination: Drachm
Grade: EF lightly toned
Reference: Ashton 335 (A114/P236 -- this coin)

  Caria, Rhodes. Circa 84-43 BC. AR Drachm (4.13 gm). Attic standard. Radiate head of
  Helios three-quarters facing right / Full-blown rose viewed from above; magistrate
  LEWNIDAS, three stars below. R.H.J. Ashton, "Post-Plinthophoric Silver Drachms of
  Rhodes," NC 1997, 335 (A114/P326 -- this coin). Lightly toned EF. Estimate $400.

  Unknown findspot, 1987 or early 1988 (CH 8, 546).
  According to the information in Coin Hoards VIII, the hoard 
in which this coin was found, was deposited ca 25 BC and 
contained at least sixty post-plinthophoric Rhodian drachms. 
Sixty coins were offered for sale in London, but they probably 
formed only a part of a much larger hoard that first appeared in
Munich. Ashton catalogues 67 specimens from this hoard in his article.