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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 25271995, member: 128351"]Well... This coin looks very much like the tetradrachms of the big Rafah hoard found in 2010, but it's not one of them. </p><p>I don't know if the obv. cmk is a scorpion. There are perhaps two circular countermarks, the smaller one partially obliterating the larger one. </p><p>On the reverse, there is a cmk that is the same as on one or two owls from the Rafah hoard. For the graffiti, I cannot recognize Aramaic script, but it's a possibility. A real specialist of Aramaic would be needed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 25271995, member: 128351"]Well... This coin looks very much like the tetradrachms of the big Rafah hoard found in 2010, but it's not one of them. I don't know if the obv. cmk is a scorpion. There are perhaps two circular countermarks, the smaller one partially obliterating the larger one. On the reverse, there is a cmk that is the same as on one or two owls from the Rafah hoard. For the graffiti, I cannot recognize Aramaic script, but it's a possibility. A real specialist of Aramaic would be needed.[/QUOTE]
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