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Drachm - Artemon
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 150 BC - 125 BC |
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| Currency | Rhodian plintophoric drachm |
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| Reverse description | Stemmed rose in full bloom with a bud to the right, the civic emblem of Rhodes, centrally positioned within a shallow incuse square. The magistrate's name ΑΡΤΕΜΩΝ appears above the rose, while the ethnic abbreviation Ρ-Ο flanks the stem. A shield device appears in the lower left field, serving as a secondary symbol; the entire design is contained within the characteristic shallow incuse square of the plintophoric coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΡΤΕΜΩΝ Ρ - Ο (Translation: Artemon Rhodes) |
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Rhodian drachms of this period were struck under the island's system of rotating magistrates, with the name on each issue identifying the presiding official rather than a mint master in any permanent sense. Artemon held this rotating authority sometime within the mid-to-late second century, a period when Rhodes was navigating an increasingly uncomfortable relationship with Rome following the punitive trade restrictions imposed after the Third Macedonian War in 167 BC — sanctions that gutted Rhodian commerce and accelerated a slow decline in the city-state's naval and economic power.