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Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III, Rhodes
| Issuer | Kingdom of Macedonia |
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| Year | 205 BC - 190 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (205 BC - 190 BC) |
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Rhodes gained the right to strike Alexander-type coinage following the city's heroic resistance during Demetrius Poliorcetes' failed siege of 305–304 BC, an episode so celebrated that the Rhodians melted down abandoned siege equipment to cast the Colossus. By the early second century, Rhodian civic finances were under pressure from shifting Aegean trade dominance, and posthumous Alexander issues provided convertible silver that moved easily across the eastern Mediterranean without the friction of unfamiliar local types.
Price 2511 is among the later Rhodian posthumous issues, struck when Rome's intervention against Antiochus III was reshaping every political calculation in the region.