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Didrachm

Date

205–200 B.C.

Medium

Silver

Culture

Greek

Department

Coins

Institution

Getty Museum

Obverse: Winged head of Medusa with tie below chin, facing to the right in three-quarters view, countermarked with a winged bust of Nike. Reverse: At the center, a rose with an eight-pointed star on the left and a bud to the right within a border of dots. Above the rose, in Greek: ΓΟΡΓΟΣ ["Gorgos", after a Rhodian magistrate who minted coins in the end of the 3rd century B.C. to the beginning of the 2nd century B.C.] Flanking the rose, in Greek: Ρ; Ο ["R, O" for Rhodes.] Large die flaw evident on reverse. Part of a Rhodian-type coin issue that may have been struck in Gortyna on Crete during the Cretan War (205-200 B.C.)

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