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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1825487, member: 42773&quot;]This countermark was once thought to be the head of Apollo, but current scholarship assigns it to Cleopatra VII. The evidence seems to fit quite well: similar countermarks are found on coins of Antioch, Chalkis, Seleukia, and Laodicea, and they all occur on types minted during the time Marc Antony was liberally granting those regions to his paramour. It’s one of the few countermarks that can be assigned to a particular historical event in the ancient world with any amount of confidence.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Antioch ad Orontes, Semi-Autonomous</p><p>AE23, 10.77g, 12h, Denomination A; Antioch, after 47 BC</p><p><i>Obv.</i>: Laureate head of Zeus right; countermark of Cleopatra</p><p><i>Rev.</i>: ‭[‬A]NTIOΣEΩN‭ [‬ME]TPOΠOΛ[EΩΣ‭]; Zeus seated left, holding Nike and scepter, thunderbolt above</p><p>‭Reference: Butcher 20, SNG Cop 80</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s28.postimg.org/6oy9rbue5/syria.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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