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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 6072954, member: 104741&quot;]Congratulations with your siglos! It certainly looks as if yours has had its fair share of travelling and adventures.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love a good, well-travelled siglos with countermarks: I like to think of them as visa of ancient globetrotters. And by the looks of it, some of these sigloi travelled a lot. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like this one: the countermarks respectfully placed around the face of Great King:[ATTACH=full]1244729[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH]1244767[/ATTACH]</p><p>Others happily stamped the Great King into oblivion<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244734[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;And some more:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244730[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1244731[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;Given the number and frequency of countermarks on sigloi (and assuming that at least a part of them were made as a result of travelling) and, given the fact that sigloi-hoards are almost exclusively found within the ancient borders of the Empire, some argue that it is not likely that these sigloi were meant as nation-wide coinage, but were a continuation of the original Lydian coinage and were meant for local use. How else to explain the enourmous number of countermarks? </p><p>&nbsp;I&#039;m no expert on Achaemenid coinage and history, but I thought it was a pretty strong argument. Think of it what you want.</p><p>Either way I think they&#039;re great coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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