Drachm - Gorgos

Features

Issuer Rhodes
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 304 BC - 166 BC
Value 1 Drachm
Currency Drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 2.78 g
Diameter 16.0 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
186882
References BMC Greek# 171,
Reginald Stuart Poole; 1876. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 2. Sicily. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
And 26 more volumes.
HGC 6# 1453var
Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series / Volume 6. Handbook of Coins of the Islands : Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Head of Helios facing slightly to right

Reverse

Rose with bud right and to left, kerykeion

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΓOPΓOΣ
P O

Mint

Ródos, Caria, modern-day Island of Rhodes, Greece

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (304 BC - 166 BC) 

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