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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 4431660, member: 87404&quot;]Only with regard to the countermark, the windmill pattern, or I&#039;ve seen/heard it referred to as mill-sail pattern (really, same difference), was used on the reverse AR Siglos &amp; 1/2 Siglos coins of Bithynia on the southwest side of the Black Sea as well as the Thracian city of Byzantion/Byzantium on the very east side of the kingdom of Thrace. These Siglos were struck just under 50 years earlier than this OP coin being struck.</p><p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/h4_4Vap2z_lNuRso9tJto3M6sKk1d7RM3pL0uUxvaoVNpi1cVHu7I_imyi_mnGyZM4z6fwDmFQ-92lqTElssMlaO_Q" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>This might be the area that the coin was circulated and was deemed official/retariffed/whatnot for use in that area&#039;s economy with that countermark.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><i>Bithynia mill-sail pattern example:</i></font></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/457/273019.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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