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ISLANDS OFF CARIA.
About b.c. 394, after Conon’s great victory at Cnidus, Rhodes took
part in the Federal coinage of the Anti-Spartan alliance. Cf. the similar
coins of Ephesus, Samos, Cnidus, and Iasus.
?YN Infant Herakles strangling ser-
pents (Rev, Num., 1863, Pl. X. 3.)
PO Rose. Traces of incuse square.
JR 175 grs. Tridrachm.
Circ. b.c. 304-168.
The coinage of Rhodes seems to have been unaffected by the campaign
of Alexander the Great, and it was not until after the famous siege of
Rhodus by Demetrius Poliorcetes that any modification was introduced
in the types.
It can, however, hardly be questioned that the next series of Rhodian
money whch exhibits the head of Helios radiate on the obverse, falls into
the period of the greatest prosperity of Rhodes, B.c. 304-168. The radiate
head on the tetradrachms of this period may serve to give us some idea
of the style and general aspect of the features of the colossal statue of
Helios by Chares of Hindus, commonly called the Colossus of Rhodes.
This figure was set up in B.C. 383, beside the harbour of Rhodus, and not,
according to a fanciful modern notion, astride across its entrance.
(Overbeck, Plastik, 3rd eel., ii. 137 sq.)
Fig. 313.
Head of Helios, facing, of softer style
than on the coins of the fifth cen-
tury, and surrounded by rays.
Id.
Head of Helios, radiate in profile.
Id.
Head of Helios, radiate, facing.
Id. in profile.
Head of Helios, facing, but without
rays.
Id.
POAION or P—-0 Rose with bud;
magistrate’s name and changing sym-
bol in field (Fig. 313) . HI Tetradr.
Id JR Didr.
POAION Id Hi Didr.
P—0 Id. Magistrates’ names and
changing symbols, as on the dia-
drachms, but all in shallow incuse
square HR Dr.
P—0 Id HR | Dr.
P—0 Two rose buds, between them
changing symbol
HR Trihemiob. 15 grs.
P—0 Id. but not in incuse square .
HR Dr.
P—0 Id
JR. | Dr.
Of this last type there is a curious variety showing an Eagle in front
of the right cheek of the Sun-god. On the reverses of coins of this class
ISLANDS OFF CARIA.
About b.c. 394, after Conon’s great victory at Cnidus, Rhodes took
part in the Federal coinage of the Anti-Spartan alliance. Cf. the similar
coins of Ephesus, Samos, Cnidus, and Iasus.
?YN Infant Herakles strangling ser-
pents (Rev, Num., 1863, Pl. X. 3.)
PO Rose. Traces of incuse square.
JR 175 grs. Tridrachm.
Circ. b.c. 304-168.
The coinage of Rhodes seems to have been unaffected by the campaign
of Alexander the Great, and it was not until after the famous siege of
Rhodus by Demetrius Poliorcetes that any modification was introduced
in the types.
It can, however, hardly be questioned that the next series of Rhodian
money whch exhibits the head of Helios radiate on the obverse, falls into
the period of the greatest prosperity of Rhodes, B.c. 304-168. The radiate
head on the tetradrachms of this period may serve to give us some idea
of the style and general aspect of the features of the colossal statue of
Helios by Chares of Hindus, commonly called the Colossus of Rhodes.
This figure was set up in B.C. 383, beside the harbour of Rhodus, and not,
according to a fanciful modern notion, astride across its entrance.
(Overbeck, Plastik, 3rd eel., ii. 137 sq.)
Fig. 313.
Head of Helios, facing, of softer style
than on the coins of the fifth cen-
tury, and surrounded by rays.
Id.
Head of Helios, radiate in profile.
Id.
Head of Helios, radiate, facing.
Id. in profile.
Head of Helios, facing, but without
rays.
Id.
POAION or P—-0 Rose with bud;
magistrate’s name and changing sym-
bol in field (Fig. 313) . HI Tetradr.
Id JR Didr.
POAION Id Hi Didr.
P—0 Id. Magistrates’ names and
changing symbols, as on the dia-
drachms, but all in shallow incuse
square HR Dr.
P—0 Id HR | Dr.
P—0 Two rose buds, between them
changing symbol
HR Trihemiob. 15 grs.
P—0 Id. but not in incuse square .
HR Dr.
P—0 Id
JR. | Dr.
Of this last type there is a curious variety showing an Eagle in front
of the right cheek of the Sun-god. On the reverses of coins of this class