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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1782527, member: 42773&quot;]Yeah, Jerry, that&#039;s the one. Love it!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is just a wild guess Doug, but on the coins I study, Tyche sometimes appears in the guise of Nike as a <i>bone fide </i>reverse design. In fact, on some coins of the Near East, it&#039;s difficult to tell the difference between the two when they&#039;re in standing pose. Nike gets transformed into a tutelary deity. It&#039;s possible that the counterstamps were intended to restrict the coins to a particular city.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you&#039;ve got coins in your purse that can or cannot be spent in a particular area, it might make it easier to differentiate between the two if you don&#039;t have to go searching every one for a counterstamp. Put two or three stamps on a coin and it becomes easy to recognize at a glance.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How&#039;s that for a totally unsubstantiated theory?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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