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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2943533, member: 82322&quot;]I agree that a nice English language work on these coins and their countermarks would be helpful.&nbsp; I am not sure enough is known to write one at this point.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can give a personal experience of how the attribution of these countermarks is developed.&nbsp; A few years ago at the New York international I bought two countermarked Sasanian-style drachms.&nbsp; Mervin from Zeno also bought one.&nbsp; Later that weekend at the Oriental Numismatic Society dinner I showed him mine, and claimed I had discovered a new countermark: Flying camel.&nbsp; This countermark looks like camel/elephant (<a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=155943" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=155943" rel="nofollow">cm 148</a>) unless you get really close.&nbsp; Luckly professor Naymark of Hofstra University was also there.&nbsp; He knew that the flying camel was a Sogdian motif and described a famous vase that had one.&nbsp; The conclusion was that a new countermark had been identified.&nbsp; The flying camel is now <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=155944" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=155944" rel="nofollow">cm167</a>.&nbsp; I found the countermark on another coin posted to Zeno but misidentified as a deer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very little is known of pre-Islamic silk road mythology so it is hard to say more about this countermark other than what kind of coins it was applied on, where it was applied on those coins, and other countermarks that appeared on the same coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>(If anyone is going to the NY International next month and wants to attend the Oriental Numismatic Society dinner let me know.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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