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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 80725, member: 283&quot;]Pardon me for butting in on your response to Sylvester. It&#039;s just that you seemed to sidestep the response I provided. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll say the following and then leave you to the thoughts / speculation of others and your own conclusions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The image attached shows an Aeginetan Stater circa 480 BC (that is, around 2,480 or so years ago). It depicts a turtle on the obverse. If you look on the turtles back, you will see a couple of bankers marks incused into it. Hey...there was no `Bank of England&#039; around at that time either.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bankers have been around since the very first coinage. Indeed speculation is high that merchants and bankers were responsible for the development of coinage in the first place. </p><p><br /></p><p>As a pointer to you and your thinking, let me say that they don&#039;t have to be `Bank of England&#039; bankers to put a bankers mark on an English coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, the marks on the image you provided might equally have been some random action that caused trauma to the coins surface, although frankly, I doubt it. It looks deliberate to my eye, but someone else might feel / believe differently (?)&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.imb4u2.myby.co.uk/stuff/Aegina480-456obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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