View source for 3069 - Seleuceia Pieria (Berenice II) (dichalkon Berenice/eagle) over Antioch (Antiochus II) (Apollo/Apollo) (MacDonald)

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|Image overstriking coin=Berenike_MacDonald.jpg
|Image overstruck variety=Antiochus_II_Apollo.jpg
|Image reference overstruck variety=https://pro.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=2058842&AucID=4895&Lot=435
|Obverse description=Head of Berenike right.
|Reverse legend=BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛEMΑΙΟΥ
|Reverse legend language=Greek
|Reverse description=Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings open.
|Mint=Seleuceia Pieria
|Ancient region=Syria
|Authority=Berenice II Euergetis (Ptolemaic queen and co-regent, 267/266-221 BC); Ptolemaic dynasty (323-30 BC)
|Date from=267 BCE
|Date to=221 BCE
|Period=Hellenistic
|Metal=Bronze
|Weight=4.47
|Diameter=19
|Denomination=dichalkon
|Standard=Ptolemaic
|Coin series reference=Svoronos 1904-1908, n° 1056
|Overstruck obverse description=Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath.
|Overstruck reverse legend=BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ (ANTIOXOY)
|Overstruck reverse legend language=Greek
|Overstruck reverse description=Apollo seating on omphalos left, holding sparrow, an elbow resting on a kithara (visible: the most part of Apollo, cithara).
|Overstruck mint=Antioch
|Overstruck ancient region=Syria (Seleucis and Pieria)
|Overstruck authority=Seleucid Dynasty (312-63 BC); Antiochus II Theos (Seleucid king, 261-246 BC)
|Overstruck date from=261 BCE
|Overstruck date to=246 BCE
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
|Coin series reference overstruck=SC I, n° 572; HGC 9, n° 266
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://numismatics.org/sco/id/sc.1.572
|Frequency of overstrikes=exceptional
|Remarks="Undertype easily seen (rotate the reverse 90 deg counterclockwise) with seated Apollo resting an elbow on a kithara behind the throne with the undertype's BASILEOS sharply visible.  The reverse also sports (count 'em *two* countermarks, a cornucopia and a Pi-T-O that resembles some similar countermarks seen on Aphrodite-statue-reverse types of Ptolemy III.  The undertype isn't as clearly visible on the obverse but it's also certainly overstruck.  The only other known specimen of this unusual overstrike/countermark type was published in Catherine Lorber's paper on the Ras Ibn Hani Berenike bronzes but this one appears to be sharper and these large photos reveal the undertype and countermarks more clearly." (D. MacDonald)
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