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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4103739, member: 85693&quot;]Great countermarks.&nbsp; I really need one of those NASCAR countermarks <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s Galba on Nero.&nbsp; One of my better ones...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1066361[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Nero / Galba&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ As</b></p><p><b>(63 A.D.; c/m 69 A.D.)</b></p><p>NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS, laureate head right / [GENIO AVGVSTI], Genius, naked to waist, standing half-left, holding cornucopiae,</p><p>[altar left].&nbsp; RIC 125</p><p><b>Countermark:</b> [Γ]AΛBΛ (GALBA in Greek) Howgego GIC 526</p><p>(9.77 grams / 27 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Galba Countermarks:</b>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;GALBA in Greek Letters (Martini Pangerl Collection 92). This countermark occurs also on Provincial coins and is Howgego as GIC 526. (These) coins are in the grey zone between official coins (so called Thrakian mint) and provincial coins of the Balkan region&quot; (Museum of Roman CM)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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