435, Lot: 237. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Æ Tetrachalkon (23mm, 12.28 g, 1h). Countermark applied during the reign of Cleopatra VII, circa 37-6 BC(?). Female head (Cleopatra VII?) within oval stamp on a pseudo-autonomous bronze of Antioch. McAlee p. 108-9, fig. 15 and p. 74, note 25. Host Fine, c/m VF, green patina with earthen highlights.

From the Richard Baker Collection, purchased form Forum Ancient Coins.

McAlee (p. 74, note 25) notes that tetrachalkoi of this time “... are frequently seen with a countermark on the obverse which was previously described as ‘head of Apollo r. in an oval...it now seems likely that the countermark portrays Cleopatra, and was used to mark coins circulating in the Syro-Phoenician territories which were given to her by Mark Antony.”