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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 24804681, member: 85693&quot;]Thank you [USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER] - that is a helpful bibliography.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to add it to my digital &quot;library&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Hermes countermark, I found one when I was initially attributing mine - so I was in Scythia.&nbsp; This is probably still possible for mine, given the horrible condition of my host coin.&nbsp; The star does seem to go with Kallatis though: </p><p><br /></p><p>Aelis&nbsp;&nbsp; Rex Scythicus Thraciae</p><p><b><i>Αίλις</i></b>&nbsp;&nbsp; <b><i>Σκύθης </i></b>Βασιλέας Θράκης</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1587391[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AE 23</p><p>SHH 4198</p><p>Reference</p><p>10.24 g&nbsp;&nbsp; 22.7-23.6 mm&nbsp;&nbsp; 12:00 o&#039;clock&nbsp;&nbsp; VF</p><p>t = ? mm&nbsp;&nbsp; ρ = ? g/cm^3&nbsp;&nbsp; σ(240 Hz) = ? MS/m</p><p>Jugate heads of the Dioscouroi right, wearing laureate piloi.</p><p>Two horse foreparts jugate right; [ΒΑ]ΣΙΛ[ΕΩΣ] / ΑΙΛΙΟΣ upward either side;</p><p>monogramm [ΓΔΕ] below.</p><p>Obverse, countermark, head of Hermes wearing petasos right</p><p>BM Black Sea --- (3rd-2nd c. BC); Canarache 34; Draganov (2010) 42;</p><p>Head --- (2nd-1st Century BC); Lindgren ---; Minns ---; Stancomb 320 (180-150 BC)</p><p>Ex H.D.Rauch Numismata 2011/88,15.4.2011</p><p><a href="http://www.hourmo.eu/27_Reges_Thraciae/Aelis/4198_Aelis_AE.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hourmo.eu/27_Reges_Thraciae/Aelis/4198_Aelis_AE.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hourmo.eu/27_Reges_Thraciae/Aelis/4198_Aelis_AE.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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