Rhodian Tetradrachm - Small Silver Pendant like Ancient Greek Coin - Obverse Sun God Helios,Reverse Flower Rhodon Rose - Rhodes Helius

This Ancient Greek coin illustrate Helios Sun God on the one side and the flower rhodon (rose), a symbol of Rhodes on the other. Inscription reads : “RHODION” in Greek fonts.

Helios,in Greek mythology, is the god and personification of the Sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky.Helios was described as a handsome god crowned with the shining aureole of the Sun, who drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night. The equivalent of Helios in Roman mythology was Sol, specifically Sol Invictus. Ancient Rhodian coinage refers to the coinage struck by an independent Rhodian polity during Classical and Hellenistic eras. The Rhodians also controlled territory on neighbouring Caria that was known as Rhodian Peraia under the islanders' rule. However, many other eastern Mediterranean states and polities adopted the Rhodian (Chian) monetary standard following Rhodes. Coinage using the standard achieved a wide circulation in the region. Even the Ptolemaic Kingdom, a major Hellenistic state in the eastern Mediterranean, briefly adopted the Rhodian monetary standard. Sun god Helios was the prominent deity for the Rhodians. Several ancient towns claimed descent from the deity. Helios would appear on obverse sides of Rhodian coinage for four centuries. Designs of Rhodian coinage were unaffected by the campaigns of Alexander the Great. The pendant is handcrafted in Greece withe extra care in 925 Sterling Silver. Its diameter size is 1.5 cm(excluding the bails) and weighs approximately 3 g. This pendant is without the chain(403Γ)