Didrachm - Gorgos

Gorgos served as magistrate at Rhodes during one of the island's most politically precarious stretches — the years bracketing the conclusion of the First and onset of the Second Macedonian War, when Rhodian diplomats were navigating simultaneously between Rome, Macedon, and the Seleucid kingdom. The city's mint was unusually productive in this window, issuing under a rotating series of named magistrates whose identities help sequence the coinage far more precisely than most Greek civic series allow. Ashton's die study placed Gorgos relatively late in this compressed group, suggesting output near the 190 BC boundary.