hurling a thunderbolt and holding the reins
ST initials to the right for designer Stephen Taylor
McDonald 281
+EDWARDVS: DEI*GRA* AGL': FRAnCIE: REX
a couple of light raised die flaws on obverse
Carian Islands, Rhodes, silver Tetradrachm. hurling a thunderbolt and holdingIslands off Caria, Rhodes, silver Tetradrachm, c. 410 BC, facing head of Helios, turned slightly to right, rev. , rose, pecten shell low in left field, all within incuse square, 15. 30g, 12h (D. Brend, Les ttradrachmes de Rhodes de la premire priode, SNR 51 [1972], 9, 6 [this specimen, illustrated on plate 1, 6]; R. Ashton, A revised arrangement for the earliest coinage of Rhodes, Essays Carson Jenkins 9, and plate I, 4). Rare and extremely fine.