Tetradrachm - Diophanes In the name of Alexander III

Features

Issuer	Rhodes
Stated authority	Alexander III the Great (336 BC - 323 BC)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	201 BC - 190 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	17.19 g
Diameter	30.5 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 406135
References	Ashton# 256 Richard Ashton; 2001. “The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC”, Money and its uses in the ancient Greek world, pages 79-115. , Price# 2524 Martin Jessop Price; 1991. The Coinage in Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus. Société suisse de numismatique = Schweizerische Numismatische Gesellschaft, British Museum (2 volumes). , HN Online# 1768 Historia numorum (http://hno.huma-num.fr/) , Kleiner Alexander# 135-142 Fred S. Kleiner; 1971. “The Alexander Tetradrachms of Pergamum and Rhodes”, Museum Notes, Volume 17, pages 95-125.

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Obverse

Head of beardless Heracles right wearing lion skin headdress.

Reverse

Zeus seated on stool-throne left, eagle on outstretched right hand, sceptre in left hand; in left field ΔΙΟΦΑΝΗΣ above rose and below the throne ΡΟ.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
ΔΙΟΦΑΝΗΣ
ΡΟ

Translation:
Alexander (III, the Great)
Diophanes
Rhodes

Mint

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

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (201 BC - 190 BC)

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