Ancient => please bend over, say ahhhh, and show me your counter-marks!!

Ummm, how 'bout we have a thread about "counter-stamps" ..... hey, that's a great idea!!!


Cilicia, Tarsos AE22
Circa 100 BC
Diameter: 22 mm
Weight: 9.78 grams
Obverse: Turreted head of Tyche right, Countermark: Radiate head of Helios right (CM: Howgego 11? Hierapolis Phrygia circa 50AD)
Reverse: "TAPSEWN" Pyre of Sandan in the form of a pyramid, Sandan on a lion within
Reference: SNG Levante 951ff

 

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Kings of the Bosporus Sauromates II Æ26 Athena
Date: 174-210 AD
Size: 26.6 mm
Weight: 9.55 grams
Obverse: Diademed bust right
Reverse: Athena seated left on throne, holding patera in right hand. Counterstamp of the bust of Septimius Severus
Reference: SNG 67-68

 

KINGS of BOSPOROS
Sauromates II Æ 144 Units
Circa AD 174/5-210/1
Dameter: 25 mm
Weight: 9.64 grams
Obverse: Diademed and draped bust right; rosette before
Reverse: Eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak; c/m: laureate head of Septimius Severus right, within circular incuse
Reference: MacDonald 544/2; Anokhin 618a; for c/m: Howgego 63

 

[h=2]HERACLIUS AE 40 nummi follis. Struck at Syracuse, Sicily. Overstruck on a large follis of Anastasius from Constantinople [/h]circa 622 AD or earlier
Diameter: 33.5mm
Weight: 13.6g
Obverse: Facing bust of Heraclius, monogram-cross beside, all within 9mm countermarked circle, bust of Anastasius clearly identifiable underneath
Reverse Large M from original undertype, mintmark CON overstamped with SCLS mintmark.






=> man, how fricken cool, eh?!!!


=> Bring It!!!

 

Master Steve, awesome coins, i don't have any counter marks for your thread...

 

Attica, aegina


Left side of turtle

 

Yours is so much better!

Akragas c.405 BC

Pantikapion star/bow 4th century

Ephesis AE14 very small c/m under deer


Persian Empire 9 c/m's? but the best is the owl obverse left

 

P clodius mf turrinus roman republic

 

Pergamon 2nd-1st century BC - my favorite owl

The bull of Ba'al (Luy) on Aspendos stater 4th century BC

Same c/m on Tarsos (Datames satrap) stater


Side, tetradrachm with Seleucid anchor c.200 BC?


I believe this c/m is modern and possibly a Cyrillic N (H). Is it a collector cachet, museum mark or sign that it is 'nyet' good? The coin is a Mesembria diobol and ex-CNG a full 9 years after they were fooled by the Black Sea Hoard fakes so it should be good. I would really like to know the meaning of the c/m. Note the E is retrograde.

 

Wow, those are some interesting coins. The counter marked Byzantine is my favorite.

 

Interesting looking counter stamps. The really small one on the first coin looks really sharp.

btw. Steve, your title is very misleading. For a minute I thought this thread was about an entirely different subject.

 

Wow guys, great looking coins!!

 

Alex III of Macedon

 

Persia AR Siglos

 

i just posted this one not long ago, but lots of counter marks...this was given to me by eng...so i'll post for him to since he didn't have any :yes:







heavily countermarked unknown coin, probably titus or tiberius...
2 helmet countermarks(dots above), T??? in (TICA?), AVG, and dolphin countermak

 

hercaclius and heraclius constantine countermarked coin, sicily mint..

 

Shahanshah Khurso II
AR Drachm
Hepthalite Counterstamp



A few Doug questions/comments.

Such an interesting counterstamp...

Know anything more Doug?

Why does this one have so many counterstamps?

Great Counterstamp!

 

The counter-marked coin depicted here reminds us of the final days of The Republic of Central America. This coin is an 1848 CAR ½ Real which was counter-marked to be legal tender in Costa Rica in 1849.

 

8 realies walked on in China

 

The Akragas is from the time that the city was taken by Carthage so the C/M is probably a conversion of old city coins into the new rulers' system.

The Persian is supposed to be a vertical oval coin but this one was struck crosswise making it look odd. I suspect that made it look possibly fake so it got tested by several merchants.

I always wondered if the Ba'al c/m meant the coin had been given to the temple. Perhaps the same coin could only be dedicated once??? I have no idea!!!