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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4053083, member: 85693&quot;]Very interesting!&nbsp; This is new information for me and I appreciate your sharing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>It so happens that I have one of those silver &quot;prow&quot; countermarks from Byzantion:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1062088[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Byzantion&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Drachm</b></p><p><b>CM on Macedonian</b> <b>Kingdom</b></p><p><b>Philip III Arrhidaios drachm</b></p><p><b>Kolophon? (c. 323-319 B.C.)</b></p><p><b>Countermark:&nbsp; 280-225 B.C.</b></p><p>Head of Herakles right, wearing lion-skin. / FILIPPOU Zeus seated left, monogram (?) left.</p><p><b>Countermark:</b>&nbsp; ΠU over prow.</p><p>SCGV 1585 (countermark)</p><p>(4.00 grams / 17 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This BY over prow countermark, along with a nearly identical (one) using an archaic form of B resembling Π, was used at Byzantium. David Sear notes, &quot;at this time [after c. 280 B.C.], the Byzantines were subject to continual threats by</p><p>Gaulish invaders, who were bought off by the payment of huge annual tributes. The impoverished city had to resort to countermarking foreign coins in place of a proper currency.&quot; (FORVM)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of my Pan countermarks (helmets, I think):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1062093[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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