Watch List notes:

ISLANDS off CARIA, Rhodos. Rhodes. Circa 404-385 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21.5mm, 14.70 g, 12h). Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose in profile, bud to left; POΔION above; Φ to left, floral motif on pecten to right; all within incuse square. Ashton 45; Hecatomnus 171b (A111/P115 – this coin); Bérend, Tétradrachmes –; HGC 6, 1418; SNG Keckman –; BMC 21. Good VF, toned, minor porosity. Struck in high relief and of fine style. Extremely rare issue, only four examples noted in Hecatomnus.


From the collection of a Northern California Gentleman, purchased from Freeman & Sear, May 2004. Ex Ponterio 47 (8 March 1991), lot 1308; Giessener Münzhandlung 50 (24 September 1990), lot 360; Dr. Paul Stadler Szego Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts Winter Mail Bid Sale, 14 December 1989), lot 598; A. Hess 252 (24 May 1982), lot 77.