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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 25397718, member: 87809&quot;]it is just a countermark on half of a coin; but the countermark is quite nice <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />got it in a multiple lot that I bought recently. </p><p><br /></p><p>AE 21</p><p>Syria, Apamea (today’s Qalaat al-Mudik), 18 – 17 BC struck under the reign of Augustus</p><p>20 x 21 mm, 7.549 g</p><p>RPC I, 4352; countermark Howgego 201;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Bust of Dionysos to r. wearing ivy wreath. Countermark of Tyche.</p><p>Rev.: (ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ) date (ΕϘΣ) thyrsus tied with ribbon.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Apamea did not mint coins after the mid first century AD.</p><p>In a publication of the coins in the Antakya Museum, Butcher lists a countermarked coin of the Dionysus/thyrsus type dated by the Seleucid era EΠΣ = 285 = 27 BC.</p><p>Regarding the mints of the Orontes Valley, based on the data gathered thus far, it seems that only Apamene coins were countermarked. Howgego lists a countermark in the shape of Tyche’s head applied on coins of Apamea, all of which are of the Dionysus/thyrsus type. The author considers this to be perhaps a countermark for indicating a lower denomination.&quot;</p><p>Quoted from Univeristy of Warwick, Nurpetlian Jack Antoine, Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, “COINAGE IN LATE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN SYRIA: THE ORONTES VALLEY (1ST CENTURY BC - 3RD CENTURY AD)” at <a href="https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57324/1/WRAP_THESIS_Nurpetlian_2013.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57324/1/WRAP_THESIS_Nurpetlian_2013.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57324/1/WRAP_THESIS_Nurpetlian_2013.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1626389[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1626390[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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