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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 490321, member: 9204&quot;]This phenomenon wasn&#039;t new. From what I&#039;ve seen, such &#039;banker&#039;s marks&#039; were very common during Republican Rome, but tapered off during the reign of Augustus. They&#039;re also commonly seen on sigloi of the Achaemenid Empire. I&#039;ll illustrate with some coins from my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a number of marks on a denarius of L. Pompilius Molo, struck 97 BC in Rome:</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/Roman_Republic_-_denarius%2C_97_BC%2C_L_Pompilius_Molo.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a rather elegant Eastern-style eye stamped onto the edge of a thick Achaemenid Persian siglos (sellers image):</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/Persian%20Empire%20siglos%20c%20450%20BC.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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