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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24796516, member: 26430&quot;]Interesting coin! And good bibliographic info, [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] &amp; [USER=76733]@Kiaora[/USER] , thanks for sharing.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an interesting type. I like countermarks generally, though almost all of mine are of the Greek &amp; (earlier) Roman varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>I posted it in another thread but I just added this one of Heraclius. Somewhere between countermark and overstrike:</p><p><br /></p><p>Heraclius Follis overstruck on Anastasius (33.5mm, 16.57g, SB 882 [this coin illustrated]):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1586380[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also got a few Hexagrams from this general period. The most presentable of them:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1586381[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Schulze / Caesarea Maritima type wasn&#039;t included in Diego Ricotti-Prina&#039;s 1950 <i>Numismatica</i> article, since it was about Sicilian coinage, but for his article with the Sicilian Heraclius countermarks/overstrikes, &quot;La Monetazione Siciliana Nell&#039;Epoca Bizantina&quot; (pp. 26-60), the volume is online: <a href="http://www.socnumit.org/doc/NSA/1950.1-6.Num.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.socnumit.org/doc/NSA/1950.1-6.Num.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.socnumit.org/doc/NSA/1950.1-6.Num.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Same for Bellinger&#039;s 1966 &quot;Byzantine Notes&quot; in <i>Numismatic Notes &amp; Monographs</i>: <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43574167" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43574167" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43574167</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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