Does this look like a counter mark on the rev. ? Havent been able to find anything yet except maybe a trident
ok it looks like its a trident So Cyprus? " ( A. Davesne (1987) stated: the trident countermark was applied in Cyprus to revalidate bronzes demonetized by the reform of ca. 265 BC. )"
Yeah... it looks like a dident... if that even is a word... seems to be a trident missing its third prong.... I don't know though. Countermarks are something I know little about... and by little I mean nothing whatsoever.
I'm pretty sketchy with countermarks too. I've found a few similar ones on vcoins (with weak or missing prongs) some listed it being a CM from Cyprus.
Its far from complete, but this is the best offering online: http://www.romancoins.info/Countermarks.html.The main reference for ancient countermarks is Howgego, Greek Imperial Countermarks. That covers Roman Imperial and Provincial as well. Hunnic countermarks are discussed in Göbl's Dokumente zur Geschichte der Iranischen Hunnen in Baktrien und Indien. Arabic countermarks on Byzantine folles are found in the Mardin Hoard and its publication, other random Islamic countermarks are published by Tony Goodwin in several issues of the ONS journal.
