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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3806988, member: 85693"]I admire those countermarks, Doug. I have a few of these, but mine are all on very worn follises of the Justinian/Justin era. Yours appear to be on newer (at the time of countermarking) follises of Heraclius. </p><p><br /></p><p>I've never understood why Heraclius countermarked his own coins. Perhaps a revaluation, or an effort to limit the circulation to Sicily during a coin shortage - this was done by the British in the West Indies around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. As I understand it, the Spanish coins would be countermarked to over-value them slightly, but enough to keep them circulating on the island. At least I think that's how that worked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3806988, member: 85693"]I admire those countermarks, Doug. I have a few of these, but mine are all on very worn follises of the Justinian/Justin era. Yours appear to be on newer (at the time of countermarking) follises of Heraclius. I've never understood why Heraclius countermarked his own coins. Perhaps a revaluation, or an effort to limit the circulation to Sicily during a coin shortage - this was done by the British in the West Indies around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. As I understand it, the Spanish coins would be countermarked to over-value them slightly, but enough to keep them circulating on the island. At least I think that's how that worked.[/QUOTE]
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