Countermark or Banker's mark?

Nice one Bing! Rag top no less. And a GT to boot. Sweet! I bet that car gets a lot of thumbs up and stares when you drive her around town.

 

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It's a beauty, and, at the moment, requires no work. This is the third, but my favorite was the first. Brittany Blue with a black interior. Sold it to an Irishman who shipped it back to Ireland and almost immediately crashed it. Complete total. What a shame.

 

Although I'm not into ancient cars, I can appreciate them : nice ones folks !
May I go back to banker's marks now ?

Here's the only one I could find through my gallery. The picture isn't the best (coin in hand is gorgeous) but you can clearly see the banker's mark at the bottom of the neck


Julius Caesar, Denarius Denarius minted in North Africa in 46 BC
COS TERT / DICT ITER, head of Ceres right
AVGVR / PONT MAX, simpulum, sprinkler, capis and lituum, D in right field
3,81 gr
Ref : HCRI # 57, RCV # 1403/1, RSC # 4a, Cohen # 4

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Carthago, does Crawford have anything useful to say about banker's marks?

There are a very, very few Roman tesserae that have what are clearly proper countermarks, but there's also a few that have what more closely resemble what we usually call banker's marks. I'm tentatively calling them countermarks because they clearly don't fit the bill for checking metal purity. This one has 'VI' stamped to the lower left on the reverse.

ROME
PB Tessera (19mm, 3.23 g, 12h)
Charioteer driving quadriga right, raising whip in right hand
Palm frond; c/m: VI
Rostovtsev 722; Rostovsev & Prou 156; Kircheriano 1169-70; BM 1389-90; Milan 127. Countermark unlisted

Ex Artcoins Roma 23 (17 February 2015), lot 584

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In contrast, countermarks are a bit more normal on tesserae from Asia Minor.

IONIA, Ephesos. Marchos, grammateus of the Boule.
PB Tessera (18mm, 8.88 g)
MAR ΓP BOV, composite head of Silenos facing right and young horned Pan facing left; c/m: bird (stork?) standing right
Blank
Gülbay & Kireç –; Vossen 42 (this coin)

Ex Tom Vossen Collection, 42​

 

Here is mine...

 

Nice panzerman! Even a Ford guy can respect that old Vette!

What year is that, 64?

 

Chevy? YUK!!!!!
Actually, nice car. Is it all stock?

 

Thanks for the link to info on cm's and cs'. I'll send one later on.

Cheers,

 

Here is my sweet summer-ride => TREK 8-Series (hardtail)


... oh, but now it even has pedals on it ...

 

I'm not sure and I don't have access to my library right now to check.

 

More bankers marks for the thread.

 

Ooops, I almost forgot => I have a couple more to toss-into the thread ...


An interesting neck design ...


Cool marks on the obverse & reverse

 

Looks familiar! Here's mine:



Still a little to chilly to comfortably ride here. (I'm lazy and don't want to buy any extra equipment.)

 

Sweet coins with bankers marks and a great link!!!

LOVE those 'muscle cars' !!! The closest I HAD was keeping my 1971 Challenger on the road LOL....I picked it up in Brooklyn when I rotated (new) after putting in an order with an Australian salesman while in Thailand...

I can't even imagine the expense involved with vintage restorations. Congrats guys, you all have me extremely jealous!!