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Drachm - Heliodoros
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 84 BC - 30 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A rose blossom depicted in plan view occupies the central field, with five petals arranged around a prominent central boss, rendered in bold relief; the composition is encircled by a border of large pellets. The magistrate's name ΗΛΙΟΔΩΡΟΣ (Heliodoros) appears above the rose, while a thunderbolt symbol is placed in the lower field below the bloom. The rose is the civic emblem of Rhodes and a constant type on the island's coinage throughout the Hellenistic period. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΗΛΙΟΔΩΡΟΣ |
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Rhodes struck these late drachms under magistrate names — Heliodoros being one of the named officials responsible for a specific emission — during a period when the island's commercial dominance had already been broken by Rome's elevation of Delos as a free port in 166 BC. That single administrative decision collapsed Rhodian harbor revenues almost overnight. The island continued minting silver through sheer institutional momentum, supplying regional trade networks across the eastern Aegean long after its political leverage had diminished.
The dating range spans the final generation before Augustus reorganized the eastern provinces, by which point autonomous Rhodian coinage was already fading.