"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Svoronos 1904-1908, n° 1056
BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ (ANTIOXOY) (Greek) Apollo seating on omphalos left, holding sparrow, an elbow resting on a kithara (visible: the most part of Apollo, cithara).
"[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SC I, n° 572, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 9, n° 266
"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)
References
^Svoronos, Ioannes N. (1904-1908), Τὰ νομίσματα τοῦ κράτους τῶν Πτολεμαίων (Ta nomismata tou kratous tōn Ptolemaiōn - The coins of the Ptolemaic rulers), Athens, 4 v., 68 pl.
^Houghton, Arthur - Lorber, Catharine (2002), Seleucid coins : a comprehensive catalogue. Part 1, Seleucus I through Antiochus III, New York - Lancaster - London, 2 v. (xxxviii, 488 p. + 300 p.), 101 pl.
^Hoover, Oliver D. (2009), Handbook of ancient Syrian coins : royal and civic issues, fourth to first centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage 9, Lancaster, lxix, 332 p.
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