Didrachm - Mnasimachos

Features

Issuer	Rhodes
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	250 BC - 229 BC
Value	Didrachm (2)
Currency	Chian-Rhodian drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	6.68 g
Diameter	20.0 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 185603
References	Ashton# 208 Richard Ashton; 2001. “The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC”, Money and its uses in the ancient Greek world, pages 79-115. , HN Online# 395 Historia numorum (http://hno.huma-num.fr/) , SNG Keckman Karia# 537-538 Ulla Westermark; 1994. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Finland / Part 1. The Erkki Keckman Collection in the Skopbank, Helsinki: Karia. Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki, Finland. , SNG Copenhagen# 765 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , SNG Ashmolean# 586-588 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , HGC 6# 1439 Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , SNG von Aulock# 2807 Gebr. Mann (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Sammlung von Aulock. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany (17 volumes).

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Obverse

Radiate head of Helios facing, turned slightly to the right

Reverse

Rose with bud to left; below, Ρ Ο. To left, Athena Nikephoros standing to left

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΜΝΑΣΙΜΑΧΟΣ
Ρ Ο

Mint

Ródos, Caria, modern-day Island of Rhodes, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (250 BC - 229 BC)								$ 750

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