Overstruck on a Seleukid Tetradrachm

Triton XIX, Lot: 338. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of CHARACENE. Apodakos. Circa 110/09-104/03 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 15.87 g, 12h). Dated SE 209 (104/3 BC). Diademed head right, wearing beard; all within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ down right, ΑΓΓΟΔΑΚOY down left, Herakles seated left on rock outcropping, holding club set on right knee in right hand and resting left hand on rock face; monogram to outer left; ΘΣ (date) in exergue. Alram 496; BMC, p. cxcvii and pl. LV, 2 var. (date); De Morgan 2 and pl. XL, 3 var. (same); Sunrise –; DCA 480. Near EF, areas of light toning, hint of porosity. Extremely rare date. Overstruck on an Athena Nikephoros issue, possibly of Antiochos VII.