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Kyrenaika, Kyrene Æ23. Circa 250 BC. Overstruck on a Ptolemy III Hemiobol. Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right / Silphium plant; KOINON across fields in three lines. For overtype: SNG Copenhagen 1276; BMC Cyrenaica pg. 68, 2ff; Müller 108; Laffaille 628; for undertype: Svoronos 871; SNG Copenhagen 442; Köln 65. 7.19g, 23mm, 3h.
Good Fine. Heavily cleaned. Rare; an interesting overstrike example.
The undertype obverse, featuring a portrait of Ptolemy I facing right, is almost entirely obliterated beneath the head of Zeus-Ammon from the overtype: both are aligned on the same axis. More obvious is the personification of Libya of the reverse undertype (this time on an axis 90° anticlockwise of the overtype) and the legend BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY around it.
Good Fine. Heavily cleaned. Rare; an interesting overstrike example.
The undertype obverse, featuring a portrait of Ptolemy I facing right, is almost entirely obliterated beneath the head of Zeus-Ammon from the overtype: both are aligned on the same axis. More obvious is the personification of Libya of the reverse undertype (this time on an axis 90° anticlockwise of the overtype) and the legend BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠTOΛEMAIOY around it.