PAMPHYLIA. Side. Circa 205-100 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 30 mm, 15.92 g, 12 h), Dei..., magistrate, circa 200-190. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet; on bowl, countermark: Seleukid anchor within oval incuse; behind, countermark: bee within oval incuse. Rev. Nike advancing to left, holding wreath in her right hand; to left, pomegranate above ΔΕΙ. Leu Web Auction 5 (2018), 303. SNG Paris 672 var. (differing magistrate). Lightly toned. Faint scratches and minor traces of corrosion and with some delamination on the obverse, otherwise, fine.



While the anchor countermark was applied by Seleukid authorities, the bee is the coat-of-arms of Ephesos. It is part of a series of similar countermarks used by a number of cities to revaluate old Attic weight coins to the cistophoric coinage introduced in circa 180 BC.