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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4868271, member: 89514"]Yes, Antoninus Pius, rev. probably TR POT XIX COS IIII S - C, Providentia standing, extending r. hand over globe at feet and holding scepter in left.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two Antonine asses with a similar countermark, one of Pius with the Annona standing rev. type of 140-4, one of Faustina II late in Pius' reign with Venus standing on the reverse. On my coins there is however a clear O attached to the top of the Δ in the countermark, so this OΔ may be interpreted as Odessus, a Greek city on the coast of the Black Sea, and the Γ can be read as a mark of value, 3 assaria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Howgego 626 records a similar countermark, but with a second Δ replacing the Γ, so valued at 4 rather than 3 assaria. This countermark is found on various Greek city coins of Thrace, Moesia Inferior, and Bithynia, of emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, and two such countermarked coins are now in the collection of the Odessa Museum, so supporting the interpretation of the OΔ in the countermark as Odessus. It's not surprising that Howgego didn't find any of our 3-assaria countermarks on Roman imperial asses of the reign of Pius, since he was not expecting to find Greek imperial countermarks on Roman imperial as well as Greek imperial coins, and probably wouldn't have had the time anyway to check the Roman imperial collections too of all of the museums he visited![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4868271, member: 89514"]Yes, Antoninus Pius, rev. probably TR POT XIX COS IIII S - C, Providentia standing, extending r. hand over globe at feet and holding scepter in left. I have two Antonine asses with a similar countermark, one of Pius with the Annona standing rev. type of 140-4, one of Faustina II late in Pius' reign with Venus standing on the reverse. On my coins there is however a clear O attached to the top of the Δ in the countermark, so this OΔ may be interpreted as Odessus, a Greek city on the coast of the Black Sea, and the Γ can be read as a mark of value, 3 assaria. Howgego 626 records a similar countermark, but with a second Δ replacing the Γ, so valued at 4 rather than 3 assaria. This countermark is found on various Greek city coins of Thrace, Moesia Inferior, and Bithynia, of emperors from Commodus to Severus Alexander, and two such countermarked coins are now in the collection of the Odessa Museum, so supporting the interpretation of the OΔ in the countermark as Odessus. It's not surprising that Howgego didn't find any of our 3-assaria countermarks on Roman imperial asses of the reign of Pius, since he was not expecting to find Greek imperial countermarks on Roman imperial as well as Greek imperial coins, and probably wouldn't have had the time anyway to check the Roman imperial collections too of all of the museums he visited![/QUOTE]
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