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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3787330, member: 85693&quot;]Very interesting.&nbsp; I really like countermarks, but I am just getting started on ancients - there are so many I am constantly amazed.&nbsp; As for yours, I am not familiar with that one.&nbsp; The basic three rectangles looks like a lot of 1st century Roman countermarks.&nbsp; There are a lot of types.&nbsp; (FYI, if you hit &quot;full image&quot; button when you make your post, your photos will be shown full size within your post). </p><p><br /></p><p>Whenever I get a new one, I reference The Museum of Roman Countermarks - here is a link to a page with a &quot;BPV&quot; that looks a lot like yours.&nbsp; You might look around the site - there are a lot of different types:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.romancoins.info/CMK-Moneyer-Aug-Part1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.romancoins.info/CMK-Moneyer-Aug-Part1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.romancoins.info/CMK-Moneyer-Aug-Part1.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one like Alegandron&#039;s, but not as nice (the dolphin on his example is exceptionally nice - these usually get flattened out, from what I&#039;ve seen).&nbsp; I have a bunch of these - they are alarmingly common.&nbsp; As Alegandron suggests, there seems to be a military connection out on the limes - I would love to see a full-blown single-source description of these - where they are found, etc.&nbsp; This came in a batch earlier in the week - the Ephesus/Moesia attribution is from what I have gleaned online - I really don&#039;t know: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1011353[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ephesus / Moesia&nbsp; &nbsp; Æ 24 (As)</b></p><p><b>Unknown Host</b></p><p><b>Tiberius c/m (c. 14-37 A.D.)</b></p><p>Æ as (or barbaric imitation); too worn to identify. </p><p>(5.07 grams / 24 mm) </p><p><b>Countermarks:</b></p><p><i>AVG</i>, <i>TICÆ</i> and Helmet obverse&nbsp; / Dolphin reverse </p><p>M. Pangerl Collection</p><p>75 (AVG),&nbsp; </p><p>90 (TICÆ)</p><p>98 (Helmet)</p><p>95 (Dolphin)</p><p><br /></p><p>And yet some more uglies - ugly but I love &#039;em.&nbsp; TICA TICAE and AVG seem to be the most common: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1011354[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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