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Hemidrachm - Damas
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 125 BC - 88 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Within a shallow incuse square, a rose bloom is depicted in frontal view at centre, its petals rendered in high relief with characteristic Rhodian style. To the left appears the monogram P (rho) and below a secondary control mark. Above the rose, within the incuse square, the magistrate's name ΔΑΜΑΣ is inscribed in Greek letters reading across the upper portion of the die. The composition closely follows the standard Rhodian hemidrachm reverse type, with the rose serving as the civic emblem of Rhodes. |
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| Mint | Rhodes Mint |
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Rhodes maintained an extraordinarily active mint throughout the Hellenistic period, and the magistrate-signed series to which this piece belongs represents one of the more systematically documented provincial coinage sequences in the Aegean. The magistrate name Damas appears as a control signature, a Rhodian practice that allows approximate chronological sequencing but rarely precise dating within the broader 125–88 BC window. That window closes with Rome's punitive reassignment of Rhodian trading privileges following the Third Mithridatic War, which effectively ended the island's independent monetary output at scale.