Drachm - Agemakhos

Features

Issuer	Rhodes
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	177 BC - 150 BC
Value	Drachm (1)
Currency	Rhodian plintophoric drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	2.89 g
Diameter	15 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 422315
References	Jenkins Rhodian# 8 Gilbert Kenneth Jenkins; 1989. “Rhodian Plinthophoroi - a Sketch”, Kraay-Mørkholm essays, pages 101-119, plates XXIX-XXXIV. , SNG Keckman Karia# 624 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 Ashmolean# 632 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , SNG Copenhagen# 801 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , HN Online# 180 Historia numorum (http://hno.huma-num.fr/) , HGC 6# 1457 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.

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Obverse

Radiate head of Helios right.

Reverse

Magistrate name above; P / O on either side of rose with bud to right; below to left, aphlaston; all within shallow square incuse.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΑΓΕΜAXΟΣ
P O

Translation:
Agemakhos
Rhodes

Mint

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

Comments

"Plinthophoric" issue. See this article explaining the series https://www.cngcoins.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=417

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (177 BC - 150 BC)

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