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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 6121277, member: 104741&quot;]Hi, [USER=91609]@PlanoSteve[/USER] <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I get your point. </p><p>But isn&#039;t there a big difference between test-cuts and banker&#039;s marks on the one hand and countermarks on the other? Anyone can jab a coin. Countermarks, as I understand, were an official seal of approval and authority, not the random mark of an assayer in the corner of the marketplace. They were used for a number of reasons, approval as valid currency in a region other than where the coin was issued among them. (there were many other reasons as well, I realize).</p><p>The author of the article I mentioned took the view that many of the countermarks were a sign of approval as currency in a region other than where they were struck. This argument, along with others, he used to cast doubt on the prevailing view that sigloi were an empire-wide Achaemenid currency (or even of the western part of it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I could find the article again. I thought it made for interesting reading. Serves me right for not bookmarking it...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, they&#039;re great coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This next one has a cornucopia of banker&#039;s marks; someone, somewhere had some serious doubts about it...[ATTACH=full]1245155[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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