Overstruck on an Antiochene Tetrachalkon

257, Lot: 280. Estimate $100. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMAGENE, Samosata. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Circa 40-30 BC. Æ (23mm, 11.64 g, 12h). Lion walking right / Tyche seated right on rocks, holding palm branch. RPC I 3849; BMC 4-6. Fine, brown patina. Scarce. Overstruck on an Antiochene issue (“Head of Zeus/Zeus enthroned” type), as all the specimens cited in RPC. Part of the head of Zeus is visible on the reverse from roughly 9 to 12 o’clock on the reverse.