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  [Image]                              Item Sold At Auction #5
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                 Web Product ID: 1443
                 Estimate: $400.00
                 Final Sale Price: $330.00
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                 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 this coin is from was
  deposited circa 25 BC and contained at least sixty post-plinthophoric Rhodian
  drachms. Ashton mentions that sixty coins were offered for sale on the London market,
  but thinks they formed only a part of a much larger hoard that first appeared in
  Munich. He catalogues a total of sixty-seven specimens from this hoard in his
  article.