276, Lot: 198. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAMPHYLIA, Side. Circa 205-100 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.07 g, 12h). Struck circa 200-190 BC. Helmeted head of Athena right; c/m: bow in bowcase with T[PA] to left / Nike advancing left, holding wreath; to left, pomegranate above ΔH. SNG France 682-3 (for coin) and 684 (for countermark); for c/m: Bauslaugh, "Cistophoric Countermarks and the Monetary System of Eumenes II," NC 1990, p. 42. Fine, toned.

From the Collection of Dick Schultz.

The TPA counterstamp was applied in Tralles. Other bow and bowcase counterstamps on Alexander-type tetradrachms and Side tetradrachms, with different legends, have been attributed to Pergamon, Ephesos, Sardes, Adramytion, Laodiceia, and Apameia. Price has linked these counterstamps to the introduction of the cistophoric coinage circa 180 BC. The application of these counterstamps permitted the circulation of Attic weight coins in the years following the reform.