437, Lot: 255. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

COMMAGENE , Zeugma. Æ (29mm, 12.38 g, 5h). Struck during or after the reigns of Philip I & II, AD 247-249. Eagle standing right, wings together, head down, in circular countermark on a bronze of Philip II from Zeugma. Howgego 340. Host Good VF, c/m’s Good VF, brown patina.

From the Richard Baker Collection.

Howgego notes: “The punches were worked to death... The date of countermarking is uncertain as the city did not issue later coins.”