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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3702708, member: 96864"]I agree, your presumed Augustus undertype example is great and the dolphin mark is particularly interesting and unusual. Does anyone know what the dolphin mark represents or what city applied it? I could see myself building a countermark collection in the future, some can be very interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not roman, but my best countermark is this, which I believe is from Temnos in Aeolis. I collect the coins of Temnos, and randomly scrolled past this "unknown" and immediately recognized it, as the 6mm stamp is basically a perfect miniature of the standard reverse on their bronzes. As a bonus it's well centered on the smooth slug of a coin. I don't know if it's described in a reference somewhere but I couldn't find any other examples, and I have no idea what the undertype is. I was very excited to stumble across it and give it a home with it's siblings.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]992418[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]992419[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3702708, member: 96864"]I agree, your presumed Augustus undertype example is great and the dolphin mark is particularly interesting and unusual. Does anyone know what the dolphin mark represents or what city applied it? I could see myself building a countermark collection in the future, some can be very interesting. Not roman, but my best countermark is this, which I believe is from Temnos in Aeolis. I collect the coins of Temnos, and randomly scrolled past this "unknown" and immediately recognized it, as the 6mm stamp is basically a perfect miniature of the standard reverse on their bronzes. As a bonus it's well centered on the smooth slug of a coin. I don't know if it's described in a reference somewhere but I couldn't find any other examples, and I have no idea what the undertype is. I was very excited to stumble across it and give it a home with it's siblings. [ATTACH=full]992418[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]992419[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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