Extremely Rare Palmyra Countermark

437, Lot: 263. Estimate $150. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PALMYRENE, Palmyra. Æ (36mm, 21.86 g, 7h). Countermark applied late 1st century AD(?). ΠЧ (Aramaic T=Tadmôr [Palmyra]) in rectangular countermark on a Rome mint sestertius of Nero. T. Kaizer, “‘Palmyre, cité grecque’? A question of coinage,” in Klio 89 (2007), pl. V (this coin); Howgego – (but cf. 683 and 694, for separate Π and Ч marks from Palmyra); Frank L. Kovacs FPL 27 (Spring 1994), no. 55. Host Fine, c/m VF, rough brown surfaces. Extremely rare – one of only two published examples.

From the Richard Baker Collection, purchased from Frank L. Kovacs, May 1987.