KINGS OF MACEDON. Perseus. 179-168 B.C. AR drachm. 2.67 gm. 15 mm. Pseudo-Rhodian type. Uncertain mint in Thessaly. Hermias, magistrate. Head of Helios facing slightly right / Rose with bud to right, I - ½ flanking stem, above. SNG Keckman (Finland) 793-795. Extremely Fine; pleasingly toned; some minor deposits and light cleaning marks; well centered and struck.

Ex Coin Galleries (July 21, 1982), lot 306.

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.