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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 5193863, member: 85693"]Interesting coin and background history. Here is a Ptolemy VI (?) with a countermark - I am not real confident about my attribution - I think that's a lotus blossom: [ATTACH=full]1214284[/ATTACH]Ptolemy VI - Sole Reign Lotus Blossom Series(c. 180-170 B.C.)  Æ 24Diademed head Zeus-Ammon /ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ BΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ; Eagle with wings closed standing left on thunderbolt [EYΔ between legs?] lotus blossom to left.Countermark:  Seleucid AnchorSvoronos 1398 (w. countermark)(14.00 grams / 24 mm) Also, I have a couple of the "Egyptianized" coins of Antiochus IV: [ATTACH=full]1214282[/ATTACH] Seleucid Kingdom        Æ 27Antiochos IV EpiphanesPost-Conquest Egyptianized Series.  Antioch Mint(169-168 B.C.)     Head of Isis right with taenia & Isis headdress / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, eagle standing rt. on thunderboltSC 1414; SNG 981; Sv. 1417.(14.15 grams / 27 mm) [ATTACH=full]1214281[/ATTACH] Seleucid Kingdom           Æ 32Antiochos IV EpiphanesPost-Conquest Egyptianized Series.  Antioch Mint(169-168 B.C.)     Laureate head of  Zeus-Serapis rt. / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ, eagle standing right on thunderbolt. SC 1412; Svoronos 1416.(35.62 grams / 32 mm)[/QUOTE]