Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Drachm - Agatharkhos
| Issuer | Rhodes |
|---|---|
| Year | 188 BC - 170 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Drachm (1) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (188 BC - 170 BC) |
| Additional information |
Rhodes issued this series of plinthophoric drachms following a political realignment that saw the island emerge as a major power broker in the eastern Mediterranean after the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. The magistrate name Agatharkhos — rendered in full on the reverse — reflects the Rhodian practice of rotating civic officials through the mint, a system that produced an enormous number of named types across barely two decades. Identifying individual magistrates from contemporary records remains largely impossible; the name survives on the coin and almost nowhere else.