ANTIOCH SYRIA AUTONOMUS ISSUE 1st CENTURY BC. CLEOPATRA VII COUNTERMARK.

ANTIOCH SYRIA AUTONOMUS ISSUE 1st CENTURY BC. CLEOPATRA VII COUNTERMARKED.

10,17 gr.

The countermark is similar to a group of countermarks from Antioch, Chalkis, Laodicaea, Seleukia, and Damascus, all cities controlled by Cleopatra (except for Antioch, which nevertheless appears to have issued coins for Antony and Cleopatra).

RPC notes this countermark as "Head of Apollo" but it may be Cleopatra. The bun behind the head and the piece of hair dangling behind the neck are similar to portraits of Cleopatra on bronze coins from Chalkis and Cyprus and tetradrachms from Syria. Perhaps it was countermarked by the mint that struck the Cleopatra / Antony tetradrachms.



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