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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4451847, member: 85693&quot;]Good to see other collectors accumulating duplicates - sometimes I feel a bit guilty about it, because I have a lot of duplicates.&nbsp; With ancients, there are so many variables, and my stuff is so low grade, that it takes two or four coins to make up one complete one for me!&nbsp; So I tell myself...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a countermark duplicate I recently got.&nbsp; It is a lyre countermarked on a Apollo/goat AE from Aeolis, Aigai.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t tell if it was countermarked when I bought it (I liked the goat), but was thrilled to find it was.&nbsp; Furthermore, I had forgotten I&#039;d already had one of these. </p><p><br /></p><p>The new one is the over-cleaned shiny one (right).&nbsp; The one I already had (left) has a green patina and a bolder countermark (and possibly a second one too).&nbsp; But my new over-cleaned one has a better goat (&quot;better&quot; being a relative term here).&nbsp; For reasons I won&#039;t attempt to justify, I rather line the big flan crack across the nose too:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111123[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Aigai, Aeolis&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ 16</b></p><p><b>(2nd-1st Century B.C.)</b></p><p>Laureate head of Apollo right /</p><p>A[IΓAEΩN], goat standing right.</p><p>Sear 4168; BMC 17.96, 10-11;</p><p>SNG von Aulock 1596</p><p>(3.86 grams / 16 mm)</p><p><b>Countermarks: </b> Lyre in 5 mm circle &amp; unknown (head?) in 4 mm circle, both obverse. (No attribution for CMs found.)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Aigai, Aeolis&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ 16</b></p><p><b>(2nd-1st Century B.C.)</b></p><p>Laureate head of Apollo right / [AIΓEΩN], goat standing right.</p><p>Sear 4168; BMC 17.96, 10-11;</p><p>SNG von Aulock 1596</p><p>(3.74 grams / 16 mm)</p><p><b>Countermark: </b> Lyre in 5 x 4 mm oval, obverse.&nbsp; (No attribution for CM found.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t have much luck finding much information about the countermark on these - the lyre turns up fairly often.&nbsp; If anybody has information, please share![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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