Drachm

Rhodes struck heavily during this period to fund the city's considerable commercial ambitions across the eastern Aegean, and Rhodian silver became among the most trusted trade coinage in the region. The island maintained strict weight standards to protect that reputation. Ashton's sequencing places this issue within a transitional phase of the mint's output, just before the administrative reorganization that followed the synoikism of 408 BC had fully stabilized into the mature Hellenistic series.