Hi all, Spanish colonial currency is some of my favorites to collect. I have seen several different countermarks before but was left wondering...
Hi All, Here is one of the last few coins I got in 2023. It is what would be an otherwise unremarkable Alexandrian Byzantine issue of Heraclius...
Feast or famine; with ancient countermarks, I find that either there is no information on them whatsoever, or a feast, with an abundance of...
Although countermarked Byzantine coins are not usually something I seek out, I couldn't resist this one. It was described in the auction listing...
May '21 was a really good month for countermarks for me. So if you don't mind some show & tell...:angelic: Two different Domitian AEs from...
I poked around CT and I didn't find much on the Characene Kingdom, and no threads with the word in the title. Since I never heard of the place...
Hope you all have been having a nice Labor Day weekend - despite the rumored hotdog shortage. As if we didn't have enough problems already! It's...
My Byzantine countermark/counterstamp collection doubled this week with a lot from eBay. They are all Heraclius so far, SB 882 and SB 884....
Just got a new countermark for my slowly expanding collection - related, somehow, to Trajan's Dacian Wars. This is a bit mysterious as the Dacian...
I have two library seated dimes and I'm have a hard tine finding any information. If anyone has knowledge with countermarked coins and knows of...
In January I received a PM from CT member tenbobbit, asking if I was interested in a batch of ancients. I told him I'd look them over, warning...
Sometimes I think ancient countermark collecting is the Dark Side of the Dark Side. Which is to say I'm trying to attribute a small batch of...
I've been working through a lot of unattributed countermarked ancients (rather unsuccessfully) and found this one which I thought was kind of...
Just got this new countermark I wanted to share. A small AE from Akmoneia, Phrygia issued for Nero by a husband and wife Archon team, strangely...
I just got a batch of el-cheapo Byzantine coppers yesterday that made me as happy as a clam (clam emoji?) despite some cosmetic issues. The one...
Hi folks, I collect coins of Ptolemaic Egypt. I bought this coin as part of a group lot of variously countermarked coins. My experience tells me...
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