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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2489503, member: 26302&quot;]I picked this one up yesterday for cheap. I was very surprised the auction company didn&#039;t mention one tiny little bit of information about this coin, that it is countermarked by Cleopatra VII. [ATTACH=full]526697[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here is the site&#039;s attribution:</p><p><br /></p><p>Syria, Seleucis and Pieria. Antiochia ad Orontem. 1st century B.C. AE tetrachalkon (20.1 mm, 8.50 g, 1 h). Laureate head of Zeus right / ANTIOXEΩN MHTPOΠOΛEΩΣ AYTONOMOY, Zeus Nikephoros seated left, uncertain date in exergue. cf. RPC 4230; cf. McAlee 61a. VF, black patina with red highlights.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, from another site:</p><p><br /></p><p>From McAlee, <i>The Coins of Roman Antioch</i> (p. 74, note 25): “The coins of this year (Pompeian Era 19 = 48/7 BC) and year 3 of the Caesarean era are frequently seen with a countermark on the obverse which was previously described as “head of Apollo r.”...it now seems likely that the countermark portrays Cleopatra, and was used to mark coins circulating in the Syro-Phoenician territories which were given to her by Mark Antony.”</p><p><br /></p><p>The countermark sure looks a lot more like Cleo than Apollo, down to her infamous bun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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