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E-Auction 16 20 July 2016
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KINGS OF MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 B.C. AR drachm. 2.68 gm. 15 mm. Pseudo-Rhodian type. Uncertain mint in Thessaly. Hermias, magistrate. Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right, I - Ω flanking stem, ΕΡΜΙΑΣ above. SNG Keckman (Finland) 793-795. Choice Extremely Fine; lightly toned. Ex Bowers and Merena (September 1985), lot 3508. R. H. J. Ashton in his 1988 article "A Series of Pseudo-Rhodian Drachms from Mainland Greece" (The Numismatic Chronicle, vol. 148, pp. 21-32) argues that this coinage was struck by Perseus to pay Cretan mercenaries serving in his army.