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| 表面の説明 | Facing head of Helios, the sun god and patron deity of Rhodes, depicted in three-quarter view turning slightly to the left, rendered in high relief with fine early Classical workmanship. The youthful, idealized visage is framed by abundant, elaborately engraved wavy hair radiating outward in all directions, evoking the solar rays of the god. The facial features are rendered with great naturalism, characteristic of the finest Rhodian die-cutters of the early fourth century BC. No legend appears on the obverse; the entire field is dominated by the majestic, sculptural effigy. The flan is irregular in shape, as is typical of hand-struck coinage of this period. |
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| 鋳造所 | Rhodes Mint |
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Rhodes was unified as a single polis in 408 BC through the synoikismos of its three predecessor cities — Ialysos, Kamiros, and Lindos — and the new federal mint began producing these tetradrachms almost immediately as an assertion of the island's consolidated political identity. The timing matters: this coinage was not evolutionary but deliberate, a fresh monetary program launched alongside the foundation of the new city of Rhodes itself.
Ashton's die study places this type among the earliest of the Rhodian federal series, before the weight standard began drifting in the later fourth century.