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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3193463, member: 85693"]After looking at all these posted examples, I am really getting interested in this series.  Again, thanks all for sharing. I was reading something the other night that might pertain, in an oblique way, to the countermark on the OP, which is "Monogram TR (or plow) in circular punch, 5 mm. Howgego 657 (4 pcs). Note: The monogram may refer to Troas..." Why a Troas countermark on a coin from Philippi?  They are kind of far apart, I thought (Macedonia and Turkey, in modern terms). In The Literature of the New Testament by Ernest Findlay Scott (Columbia University Press, 1936) I found this: "He (St. Paul) traversed again those regions of Asia Minor whiche he had visited on his first journey, and in due time found himself at Troas, a seaport town near the site of ancient Troy.  It was here, where Europe and Asia had first come into memorable contact, that he had his vision of a man of Macedonia calling him.  He passed over into Europe and founded a church at Philippi, which was henceforth to be dearer to him than any of his other churches..." (p. 113). So the answer is clear!  St. Paul carried the OP with him from Troas to Philippi!  Well, maybe not - the countermark would come after the host coin was minted. so Paul's journey doesn't quite fit.  But I thought it was interesting.[/QUOTE]