Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Rhodes
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	408 BC - 400 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Chian-Rhodian drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	15.14 g
Diameter	24 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 422426
References	Ashton# 42 Richard Ashton; 2001. “The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC”, Money and its uses in the ancient Greek world, pages 79-115. , Berend Tetradrachm# 72-75 Denyse Bérend; 1972. Les Tétradrachmes de Rhodes de la première période. Société suisse de numismatique = Schweizerische Numismatische Gesellschaft. , HN Online# 1034 Historia numorum (http://hno.huma-num.fr/) , SNG Ashmolean# 539 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , SNG Fitzwilliam# 4778 Fritz Heichelheim. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume IV - The Fitzwilliam Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (8 volumes). , Weber# 6713 Hermann David Weber, Leonard Forrer. Descriptive catalogue of the collection of Greek coins formed by Sir Hermann Weber M.D. 1823-1918. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , HGC 6# 1417 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. , Hecatomnus# 103-106 Richard Ashton, Philip Kinns, Koray Konuk, Andrew R. Meadows; 2002. “The Hecatomnus Hoard”, Coin hoards, Volume IX: Greek hoards, pages 95-158.

Obverse

Head of Helios facing slightly right.

Reverse

ΡΟΔΙΟΝ above rose with bud to left; in right field, Φ and bucranium; all within square incuse.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΡΟΔΙΟΝ
Φ

Mint

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

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (408 BC - 400 BC)								$ 48 000

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Triton XXVIII Lot 319	14 Jan 2025	XF	USD 45 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	The New York Sale Auction 27 Lot 560	4 Jan 2012	XF	USD 55 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Purchased from Spink, 10 February 1983; Numismatic Fine Arts VIII (6 June 1980), lot 300; from 1971 Marmaris Hoard (IGCH 1209)
© The New York Sale
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Triton XIV Lot 330	4 Jan 2011	XF	USD 12 000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 51 Lot 653	5 Mar 2009	XF	USD 12 604.01 (CHF 10 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 412; from 1971 Marmaris Hoard (IGCH 1209)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Hess Divo Auction 307 Lot 1267	7 Jun 2007	XF	USD 12 604.01 (CHF 10 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Vente Monnaies et Médailles SA, Bâle 81 (1995), 91
© Hess Divo