Greek coin in Classical Numismatic Gallery Auction No-29
2017-12-15 Fri
The featured coin is silver Didrachm of Rhodes from Ancient Greece (305-275 BCE). It weighs around 6.57 grams. The obverse depicts the head of Helios and reverse has a rose with buds on both side and Greek letter E and Y in the field.Let’s know few facts about Rhodes.
Rhodes was one of the powerful ancient city-states in Greek. Most of their coin depicts Helios and Rose because according to Greek mythology, Rhodos was the goddess of the island of Rhodes and wife of Helios, a personification of the sun-god. And many roses were found on the island of Rhodes. So, as an honour to their patron God they depicted rose and Helios on their coins.
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