347, Lot: 248. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PAMPHYLIA, Perge. Circa 221/0-189/8 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31.5mm, 16.62 g, 1h). In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Dated CY 28 (circa 194/3 BC). Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin; c/m: AΠA and bow-in-bowcase within incuse oval / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; KH (date) in left field. Colin Series 0, Em. 28; Price 2942; DCA 314. VF, toned.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from Antioch Associates, 1994.

The AΠA countermark was applied in Apameia, Phrygia. Other bow and bowcase countermark on Alexander-type tetradrachms have been attributed to Pergamon in Mysia, Ephesos in Ionia, Sardes and Tralles in Lydia, and Laodikeia in Phrygia. Price has linked these counterstamps to the introduction of the cistophoric coinage circa 180 BC. The application of these countermarks permitted the circulation of Attic weight coins in the years following the reform.