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Hemidrachm - Anaxandros
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 230 BC - 205 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΑΝΑΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ρ Ο |
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Anaxandros served as magistrate (eponymous) on Rhodes during a period when the island state was consolidating its position as the dominant commercial and naval power in the eastern Mediterranean. The Rhodian hemidrachm coinage of this period functioned as fractional currency within a tightly controlled civic monetary system — Rhodes maintained unusually rigorous standards of weight and fineness across its silver issues, a reputation that made Rhodian coin acceptable across Aegean and Levantine markets without negotiation.
Ashton's die study of the series places this magistrate's issues firmly in the mid-third to early-second century range, cross-referenced through hoard evidence rather than documentary sources.