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Drachm - Hermokrates
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 84 BC - 30 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Radiate facing head of Helios, rendered in fine Hellenistic style with wavy hair swept back from the forehead and parted centrally, the face turned slightly to the right. The crown of spiky sun-rays radiates prominently around the entire head, rendered with varying lengths and finely modelled relief. The overall workmanship is of high artistic quality, characteristic of Rhodian coinage of the late Hellenistic period, filling the flan with no border visible. |
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| Reverse lettering | EPMOKPATHΣ P O (Translation: Hermokrates Rhodes) |
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This issue belongs to the so-called "plinthophoric" series of Rhodian drachms, named for the distinctive square border framing the reverse type. Rhodes maintained nominal autonomy under Roman supervision after 42 BC, but the city's coinage had already been in steady decline since Rome stripped it of its Lycian and Carian territories in 167 BC — a punishment for Rhodian neutrality during the Third Macedonian War. The magistrate name Hermokrates places this piece within a well-documented sequence catalogued by Ashton and Weiss, though the precise chronology within the 84–30 BC bracket remains debated.