SHARP Rose and Helios from Rhodes - 320 BC - in 18k Gold prong Setting
This coin was purchased from reputable ancient coin dealer weights 7 grams and is 19 mm in size.
The coin was purchased from a respected US ancient coin dealer.
-- Coin information:
ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes - silver didrachm
Obverse: head of Helios facing slightly right
Reverse: Rose with bud to right; grape bunch and E to left; all within incuse square
Struck circa 340-316 BC
Rhodes' history begins long ago in the mist of mythology. According to the myth, Zeus decided to apportion the islands of Greece to the other Gods. The Sun God Helios selected Rhodes, while it emerged from the azure blue sea, flooded it with his eternal light and made it the most beautiful island. Helios named the island after the nymph Rhode, with whom he felt in love. She was the daughter of the Goddess Aphrodite.
Helios was imagined as a handsome Sun god crowned with the shining aureole of the sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. Helios is sometimes identified with Apollo. Greek poets never described Apollo driving the chariot of the sun, but it was common practice for Latin poets. Worship of Helios (and later Sol) was sometimes considered a cult in conflict with traditional worship.
This coin was purchased from reputable ancient coin dealer weights 7 grams and is 19 mm in size.
The coin was purchased from a respected US ancient coin dealer.
-- Coin information:
ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes - silver didrachm
Obverse: head of Helios facing slightly right
Reverse: Rose with bud to right; grape bunch and E to left; all within incuse square
Struck circa 340-316 BC
Rhodes' history begins long ago in the mist of mythology. According to the myth, Zeus decided to apportion the islands of Greece to the other Gods. The Sun God Helios selected Rhodes, while it emerged from the azure blue sea, flooded it with his eternal light and made it the most beautiful island. Helios named the island after the nymph Rhode, with whom he felt in love. She was the daughter of the Goddess Aphrodite.
Helios was imagined as a handsome Sun god crowned with the shining aureole of the sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. Helios is sometimes identified with Apollo. Greek poets never described Apollo driving the chariot of the sun, but it was common practice for Latin poets. Worship of Helios (and later Sol) was sometimes considered a cult in conflict with traditional worship.
This coin was purchased from reputable ancient coin dealer weights 7 grams and is 19 mm in size.
The coin was purchased from a respected US ancient coin dealer.
-- Coin information:
ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes - silver didrachm
Obverse: head of Helios facing slightly right
Reverse: Rose with bud to right; grape bunch and E to left; all within incuse square
Struck circa 340-316 BC
Rhodes' history begins long ago in the mist of mythology. According to the myth, Zeus decided to apportion the islands of Greece to the other Gods. The Sun God Helios selected Rhodes, while it emerged from the azure blue sea, flooded it with his eternal light and made it the most beautiful island. Helios named the island after the nymph Rhode, with whom he felt in love. She was the daughter of the Goddess Aphrodite.
Helios was imagined as a handsome Sun god crowned with the shining aureole of the sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. Helios is sometimes identified with Apollo. Greek poets never described Apollo driving the chariot of the sun, but it was common practice for Latin poets. Worship of Helios (and later Sol) was sometimes considered a cult in conflict with traditional worship.
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