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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 408 BC - 404 BC |
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| Currency | Chian-Rhodian drachm |
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| Reverse description | A fully open rose bloom with spreading petals and a prominent bud on a short stem occupies the center of a recessed square incuse field, serving as the civic emblem and punning badge of Rhodes (Greek: Ῥόδος). The ethnic legend ΡΟΔΙΟΝ is inscribed above the rose along the upper edge of the incuse square. To the left field, a Herculean club is depicted upright as a secondary symbol. The deeply sunken square incuse border frames the entire design, a technique characteristic of early fifth-century Rhodian coinage. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Rhodes as a unified polis did not exist before 408 BC. The city was founded that year through the synoikism — the deliberate political merger — of three older Rhodian cities: Ialysos, Kamiros, and Lindos. This tetradrachm belongs to the very first coinage struck in the name of the new city, making it a product of a constitutional act rather than continuity of any prior mint. The type was abandoned relatively quickly as Rhodes shifted toward its prolific hemidrachm coinage, which would dominate its output for centuries.