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No story today :) Just the coin:
Obverse: Radiate head of Helios facing slightly right
Reverse: APTEMΩN / P-O, rose with bud to right, hook to left; all within incuse square.
Struck 170-150 BC in Rhodes. Struck to the so-called Plinthophoric standard, under the magistrate Artemon.
13.1mm, 1.16g.
Jenkins 50; SNG Helsinki 658. VF
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