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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24775838, member: 26430&quot;]Here is a fun countermark coin from Troas Alexandria. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the five countermarks (Apollo, mouse, two lyres -- one incuse, one in relief -- also a horse head in relief, very common grouping found on this type) relate to Apollo Smintheus, the &quot;mouse slayer,&quot; to whom there was a local temple:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1585023[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite of the five are the mouse (by far) and the horse:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1585024[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got a couple other Roman Provincials from the same city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one rarely seen. Caracalla on horseback riding toward the cult statue of the same Apollo Smintheus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1585025[/ATTACH] </p><p>From the Lindgren Collection (unpublished, surely intended for his fourth vol. which was never completed), acquired from the great Malloy Auction XXXIII (19 June 1992), &quot;Local Coinages of the Roman Empire,&quot; Lot 278.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most of my Alexandrian are from the Egypt one... </p><p><br /></p><p>A pair of Fallen Horsemen AE2s, one Constantius II and one Gallus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1585026[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1585027[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are 9 favorites from the Giovanni Dattari (1853/8-1923) Collection with his rubbings (for 8, plus a photo for one from his 1901 catalog):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1585022[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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