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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7510652, member: 85693&quot;]Usually I don&#039;t bid on a countermark unless I have some idea what it is.&nbsp; Unless it is going cheap.&nbsp; Then I buy it anyway.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This one baffles me.&nbsp; The host coin is the common little AE from Sardes with Apollo and a club in wreath.&nbsp; The countermark is a four-sided (or five-sided?) something in a circle.&nbsp; I&#039;ve gone through the usual places to find this and I am coming up with nothing.&nbsp; This host coin is not often countermarked (my half-baked theory is that it is too small - most countermarks that I see are on somewhat larger flans; with something this small a countermark becomes almost an overstrike (see Heraclius counterstamps (both sides) from Sicily, which are sometimes basically overstrikes if the flan is small enough).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, if somebody can provide any suggestions on what the countermark&#039;s &quot;object&quot; might be, it would be helpful.&nbsp; Is there an ancient four-sided (or five-sided) cross that is resembles?&nbsp; A double-boomerang?&nbsp; Star countermarks of various sorts are out there, but nothing that looks like this thing.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1297589[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1297590[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Lydia, Sardes&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ 15</b></p><p><b>Civic Issue</b></p><p><b>(c. 133 - 1 B.C.)</b></p><p>Laureate head of Apollo right / [ΣAΡ]ΔI [ANΩN], club, ΩΠAE monogram below.</p><p>Paris AA.GR.12582; Mionnet IV, 656; GRPC Lydia 66.&nbsp; (Host attribution not entirely certain; monogram seemed to match Wildwinds specimen).</p><p>(4.40 grams / 15 mm)</p><p><b>Countermark:</b>&nbsp; Four-sided object (cross?) in 7 mm circle obverse.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you.&nbsp; And feel free to post any Sardes countermarks you might have - I&#039;d like to see them.&nbsp; Or any countermarks at all.&nbsp; I adore countermarks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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