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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;romismatist, post: 25472003, member: 44106&quot;]I would agree that the overstrikes were intentional, not errors. In the early period of Magna Grecian coinage, there are examples of staters of Poseidonia overstruck on staters of Akragas and Metapontum. I think that Tarentum&nbsp; also overstruck some of its coinage over Corinthian pegasi as well. So it seems to have been a relatively common activity in the Greek world at least, as city states dealt with fluctuations in currency requirements due to ongoing military campaigns and having to pay troops or mercenaries on different ponderal standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overstrikes are different from countermarks, which were also intentional, and another way of rebranding currency to circulate in a different region from where it was struck. This happened with Athenian owls, Roman bronzes and even Byzantine bronzes restruck for Spanish colonial change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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