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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8105423, member: 128351&quot;]I am not sure you can refer to the &quot;Imperial Aramaic alphabet&quot; reproduced on this plate. This script is a library script for writing on papyrus, parchment, ostraca. The alphabet used on coin dies was different, you can look at Philistian or Samarian coins minted during the Persian period. For ex. the &#039;ayin zayin ethnic for Gaza was written ZO.</p><p>About the countermark that resembles a masonic symbol, I am not sure it is two semitic letters. I have seen this cmk quite often... There is one on ANS 2006.12.33, from a hoard allegedly found in North Syria (cf. Anderson and Van Alfen, AJN 20 (2008) 155-198 nr.94) :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1409800[/ATTACH] </p><p>There are many others on owls with no provenance, from the market. This cmk can be on Athena&#039;s cheek or on the reverse, like here :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1409802[/ATTACH] </p><p>(Bruun Rasmussen 764.5628)</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting specimen is this one (Roma Num. E-Sale 54.111)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1409805[/ATTACH]</p><p>because it is a pi-style, minted after 353 BC, so the countermark can be dated from the 2nd half of the 4th c. BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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