View source for 25480 - Charax Spasinou (Apodacus) (tetradrachm Apodacus/Heracles) over Antiochus VII (Antiochus/Athena) (Leu Numismatik, EA 26, July 2023, 1745)

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|Image overstriking coin=Apodacus_Leu_Numismatik, _Web_Auction_26, _8_July_2023, _1745.jpg
|Image reference overstriking coin=https://pro.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=2239337&AucID=5442&Lot=1745
|Image overstruck variety=Antiochus Evergetes O.jpg
|Image reference overstruck variety=https://pro.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=259634&AucID=384&Lot=1283
|Sale=Leu Numismatik, Web Auction 26, 8 July 2023, 1745
|Private collection="From a European collection, formed before 2005"
|Obverse description=Male head right, wearing diadem. Bead-and-reel border.
|Reverse legend=ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΠΟΔΑΚΟΥ
|Reverse legend language=Greek
|Reverse description=Heracles seated left on rock covered by Nemean lion skin, holding club on knee in right hand and resting left hand on rock face. In outer left, monogram. in exergue, ZΣ (year 207).
|Mint=Charax Spasinou
|Ancient region=Characene
|Authority=Apodacus of Characene (124-103 BCE); Characene kingdom
|Date from=106 BCE
|Date to=105 BCE
|Period=Hellenistic
|Metal=Silver
|Weight=16.19
|Diameter=30
|Axis=12
|Denomination=tetradrachm
|Standard=Attic
|Coin series reference=Alram 1986, n° 495
|Coin series web reference=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/characene.apodacus_characene.bmc_characene.pl.54.2
|Overstruck obverse description=Diademed head of Antiochus r.
|Overstruck reverse legend=BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ∕ ANTIOXOY/ EYEPΓETOY
|Overstruck reverse legend language=Greek
|Overstruck reverse description=Athena standing l. holding Nike and resting l. arm on shield, and holding spear with left; monograms in outer l. field
|Overstruck mint=Antioch
|Overstruck ancient region=Syria
|Overstruck authority=Antiochus VII Euergetes (Seleucid king, 138-129 BC); Seleucid Dynasty (312-63 BC)
|Overstruck date from=138 BCE
|Overstruck date to=129 BCE
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
|Overstruck denomination=tetradrachm
|Overstruck standard=Attic
|Coin series reference overstruck=SC II, n° 2061.2
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.2061
|Frequency of overstrikes=frequent
|Remarks="This coin was overstruck on a tetradrachm of the former overlords of Charakene, the Seleukids, as one can faintly read [...]TIOXOY across Herakles' head on the reverse. Which of the Seleukid kings named Antiochos the coin belonged to is difficult to say, but the most likely candicate is Antiochos IV, since the lines across Herakles' body likely derive from a seated Zeus figure, and the traces of the undertype on the obverse resemble his large portrait with curly hair. Another possibility would be Antiochos VIII, who was a near contemporary of Apodakos, but his coinage saw far less circulation in the East due to the collapse of Seleukid imperial control in the 140s and 130s BC, and his portrait is usually much smaller than that of Antiochos IV." (nb: not Antiochus IV and the Zeus aetophoros but Antiochus VII as elsewhere: see the lambda between the omikron of the legend and the hand of Athena)
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