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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3186062, member: 56859"]Ah-- not a goat. A bow in bow case. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Similar c/m:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=280236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=280236" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=280236</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/3470248.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>"The AΠA countermark was applied in Apameia, Phrygia. Other bow and bowcase countermark on Alexander-type tetradrachms have been attributed to Pergamon in Mysia, Ephesos in Ionia, Sardes and Tralles in Lydia, and Laodikeia in Phrygia. Price has linked these counterstamps to the introduction of the cistophoric coinage circa 180 BC. The application of these countermarks permitted the circulation of Attic weight coins in the years following the reform."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3186062, member: 56859"]Ah-- not a goat. A bow in bow case. :D Similar c/m: [url]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=280236[/url] [IMG]https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/3470248.jpg[/IMG] "The AΠA countermark was applied in Apameia, Phrygia. Other bow and bowcase countermark on Alexander-type tetradrachms have been attributed to Pergamon in Mysia, Ephesos in Ionia, Sardes and Tralles in Lydia, and Laodikeia in Phrygia. Price has linked these counterstamps to the introduction of the cistophoric coinage circa 180 BC. The application of these countermarks permitted the circulation of Attic weight coins in the years following the reform."[/QUOTE]
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