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Tetradrachm - Ameinias
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 230 BC - 205 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΡΟΔΙΩΝ ΑΜΕΙΝΙΑΣ |
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Rhodes maintained its mint output aggressively during the late third century BC, a period when the island republic was navigating the destabilizing aftermath of the 226 BC earthquake — one of antiquity's most catastrophic seismic events, which leveled the Colossus and prompted emergency tribute and gifts from across the Hellenistic world. The magistrate name Ameinias places this piece within a reasonably well-documented sequence, cross-referenced across the Ashton corpus, which remains the authoritative die study for Rhodian silver of this period.
Ashton #212 sits in a group produced as Rhodes was reasserting commercial dominance in Aegean trade networks, partly financed by the extraordinary outpouring of foreign aid following the disaster.