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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3445128, member: 56859&quot;]What a lovely example!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know more about your coin&#039;s countermark but I don&#039;t think it is a trident.&nbsp; There are numerous scholarly articles about Athenian tetradrachms so with some digging (and often with translation) you may be able to answer your own question.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an article that might get you started.&nbsp; I casually browsed it and didn&#039;t find the specific countermark on your coin depicted but the article was just a big-picture view of a hoard of ~10,000 Athens tets found in Syria in 2007.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580558?read-now=1&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580558?read-now=1&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580558?read-now=1&amp;seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Although this article doesn&#039;t answer your question, you may find footnoted articles to be helpful.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps the character in your countermark is Phoenician or Aramaic, as were some of the marks found on coins of this Syrian hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, this doesn&#039;t seem to be the source of the ~10,000 tets recently hitting the market-- the Syrian hoard discussed in this paper seems to mostly be cut, countermarked, etc unlike the higher grade and unmolested coins we&#039;ve been seeing lately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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