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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 2726010, member: 82194&quot;]Sorry I was out of the loop for a couple days but thanks for posting some great coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Specifically for [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] I found a pretty good article you&#039;ll have some interest in:</p><p><a href="http://www.pontos.dk/publications/articles/stolba_monetary-crises-2005.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pontos.dk/publications/articles/stolba_monetary-crises-2005.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.pontos.dk/publications/articles/stolba_monetary-crises-2005.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The article talks about the 3rd Century BC monetary crisis that hit the Greek cities along the Black Sea coast.&nbsp; There is specific mention of coin weight reduction, alloy changes, and the cessation of non-bronze coinage.&nbsp; The coins that remained in circulation were &quot;subjected to overstriking with new types and countermarking, often more than once.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Further, &quot;The Bosporan hoards of this period are completely devoid of coins of precious metals. The first coin type closely associated with the monetary crisis represents the head of a beardless satyr on the obverse and a lion&#039;s head with a starry sturgeon beneath on the reverse. Being one of the most widespread variants of the Bosporan coins it served as a basis for a number of countermarkings and overtrikings. Countermarking of the type with a &#039;12-rayed star&#039; and a &#039;gorytos&#039; [bow-case] applied, as in the case of Olbia, with the linked punches evidently ran parallel with its continued striking, but henceforth with the countermarks already carved into the dies.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>See what you&#039;ve done - now a countermarked example is on my want list.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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