Seleucis and Pieria, Antiochia ad Orontem. ca. 1st century BC. AE, Tetrachalkon. 12.71 g. - 24.14 mm. Civic issue. Dated year 19 of the Pompeian Era=48/47 BC.
Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus to right; countermark: Head of Apollo or Cleopatra(?) right within round incuse.
Rev.: ANTIOXΕΩN THΣ / MHTPOΠOΛEΩΣ. Zeus Nikephoros seated left, holding Nike and scepter; cornucopia to inner left field, ΙΘ (date) in exergue; all within laurel wreath.
Ref.: RPC I 4216; McAlee 43.
McAlee, p. 74, n. 25, stated that coins dated 48/7 (RPC 4216) and 47/6 (RPC 4219) are frequently seen with a countermark which is usually described as a head of Apollo. In his opinion, this countermark portrays Cleopatra and “was used to mark coins circulating in the Syro-Phoenician territories which were given to her by Mark Antony”. Date in exergue most of the time on thunderbolt.
Fine / Very Fine."Repatinated"