Caria, Island of Rhodes (2nd Century BC), Drachm, 2.7 gms., head of Helios three-quarters facing right, rev. rose in bloom, bud from stem, butterfly to left and legend in field (SNG Cop. 774-775), together with a Drachm of Gortyna, Crete (c. 250 BC), obv. laurete head of Zeus right, counterstamp of butting bull, rev. Europa on bull, right, counterstamp of head of Artemis (Svor. 116), together with bronzes of Apameia in Phrygia and Tauromenion in Sicily, a Diobol of Apollonia Pontica, a square Drachm of the Bactrian King Apollodotos, and a Dirhem of the Sassanian King Kushru II counterstamped by the Turco-Hephthalites, fine to good very fine, an interesting group (7)

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Caria, Island of Rhodes (2nd Century BC), Drachm, 2.7 gms., head of Helios three-quarters facing right, rev. rose in bloom, bud from stem, butterfly to left and legend in field (SNG Cop. 774-775), together with a Drachm of Gortyna, Crete (c. 250 BC), obv. laurete head of Zeus right, counterstamp of butting bull, rev. Europa on bull, right, counterstamp of head of Artemis (Svor. 116), together with bronzes of Apameia in Phrygia and Tauromenion in Sicily, a Diobol of Apollonia Pontica, a square Drachm of the Bactrian King Apollodotos, and a Dirhem of the Sassanian King Kushru II counterstamped by the Turco-Hephthalites, fine to good very fine, an interesting group (7)