Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 511. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAMPHYLIA, Side. Circa 200-190 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.11 gm). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; c/m: bow in bowcase with ADRA to left / Nike advancing left, holding wreath; pomegranate above DEI (magistrate) in left field. For coin: SNG France 674; SNG von Aulock 4786. For c/m: Bauslaugh, "Cistophoric Countermarks and the Monetary System of Eumenes II," NumChron 1990, pg. 45. VF, light porosity, bold countermark. ($200)

The ADRA counterstamp was applied in Adramytion. Other bow and bowcase counterstamps on Alexander-type tetradrachms and Side tetradrachms, with different legends, have been attributed to Pergamon, Ephesos, Sardes, Tralles, 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.