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Drachm - Melantas
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 125 BC - 88 BC |
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| Currency | Rhodian plintophoric drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΕΛΑΝΤΑΣ Ρ - Ο (Translation: Melantas Rhodes) |
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| Mint | Rhodes |
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Rhodes maintained its position as the dominant commercial hub of the eastern Mediterranean through much of the second century BC, and its silver coinage — among the most widely accepted trade currency in the Aegean — was struck in enormous quantities to meet that demand. The magistrate name Melantas appears on this issue, one of dozens of rotating eponymous officials whose names served as internal mint accountability markers rather than honorifics. The series came to an abrupt end when Sulla sacked the island's rival Mithridates VI in 88 BC, collapsing the trade networks that had made Rhodian silver so indispensable.