A bucket-list coin

@Broucheion, Huge Thanks!!! Bookmarked and tabbed.

 

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Hi All,

A repeat of my 1/3 siglos https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ar...estcuts-and-countermarks.374612/#post-6094341

- Broucheion

 

I still need a type IV. Love the countermark, VGO!

Wow, that is an amazing Type II, @dougsmit! My type II is a fraction (1/12 siglos), 0.48g and 8mm:


Type IIIb:


Type III fourrée :

 

Thanks again for the link to the page on Forvm Ancient Coins, @Broucheion. Easily the best explication of the variants I've ever seen. ...Too bad the infamous Safeway banker's mark (Thanks, @Ryro) wasn't on the page. (Right, an older reference.)

 

@+VGO.DVCKS, Congrats on the bucket list acquisition! Here's another one for the pile, riddled with countermarks which I find appealing.

Persia, Achaemenid Empire, 5th-4th Century BC, AR Siglos, 5.16g, 16x12mm
Obv: King with bow left
Rev: incuse [is it just me or does it seem to mimic the kings head?]
Notes: countermarks on both sides, ex van der Dussen collection, to me this looks like Carradice Type IVa early, but I can't pinpoint, so it sits anywhere from early to late : Artaxerxes I - Darius III, c. 450 - 336 BC.

 

Great coin @+VGO.DVCKS ! Here is my Siglos.


Achaemenid Empire
Xerxes II to Artaxerxes II,
AR Siglos, Mint in Asia Minor, struck ca. 420-375 BC
Wt.: 5.4 g
Dia.: 16 mm
Obv.: Persian king / hero wearing kidaris and quiver, kneeling-running right holding spear and bow
Rev.: Incuse punch
Ref.: Carradice Type IIIb C
Ex JAZ Numismatics (Private Auction 84, lot 2, April 20, 2017)

 

Many thanks to one and all for demonstrating the remarkable variety of these. I honestly didn't know that the motif was capable of enough consistent variation to date these with this level of precision. They're All Great. ...@Sulla80, at first, I really wanted your example to be a brockage, until more of the caffeine kicked in and it registered that the 'images' weren't reversed.
It just so happens that a few weeks ago, I found a complete set of the old Loeb Classical Library translation of Herodotus. You guys' (<--NGS) are really setting off the synapses. ...That's how good you are!