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Rhodian Hemidrachm - Magistrate?

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I recently bought several small Greek silver coins from a local dealer. Among them was this little hemidrachm from Rhodes, circa 170-150 BC (Sear 5065). I don't have a magnifying glass in the house powerful enough to let me try to read the magistrate's name, so I put it on the scanner and cranked up the DPI to 2400. Here's the result:

Rhodian-Hemidrachm---Magistrate?

Now I can read the name clearly enough, or, well, almost. It appears to be LOANODWR, or something similar.

Can anyone offer a clearer interpretation, or point me in the direction of a list of Rhodian coinage-magistrates I can search through?
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Way outside my area but could the last two letters be missing for Athanodoros?
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@sap, that first letter (alpha or lambda) is interesting. I'm having a hard time finding another coin with a similar tail like like that on wildwinds. I do agree with biancasdad that it seems more like an alpha.
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The last two letter are a bit odd, near as I can make out it looks like AOANODOR.
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Just found this coin on acsearch. It is either your coin or a die match and is in fact attributed to Athandoros:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3340385
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I think that is the same reverse die...
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I think it is the same coin, judging by the shape of the flan, the location of the square on the flan, and the little V-shaped dimple at 10 o'clock . Thanks for the provenance info!

And thanks to all for the correct reading.
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