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Tetradrachm - Aristoboulos In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Rhodes |
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| Year | 201 BC - 190 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Aëtophoros enthroned left upon a high-backed throne, his body nude to the waist with drapery across the lower limbs, extending his right arm to present an eagle perched with wings closed, and grasping a tall sceptre upright in his left hand. In the left field, the magistrate's name ΑΡΙΣΤΟΒΟΥΛΟΣ is inscribed vertically, while the ethnic ΡΟ appears in the lower right field. The legend ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ runs along the right margin. A shield or helmet symbol appears in the lower left field as a secondary control mark. The whole is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΒΟΥΛΟΣ ΡΟ |
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Aristoboulos served as magistrate at Rhodes during a period of acute geopolitical pressure — the island was navigating its alliance with Rome against Antiochos III while simultaneously maintaining its role as the dominant naval and commercial power in the eastern Aegean. Rhodian civic pride ran deep enough that even when striking in Alexander's name, local magistrates insisted on appending their own identifiers, making these issues a hybrid of Macedonian monetary convention and Rhodian administrative habit.
Price 2516 places this among the later posthumous Alexanders attributable to Rhodes, with Ashton's more granular die study confirming the Aristoboulos group as a distinct and relatively short-lived emission.