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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;paddyman98, post: 4004597, member: 44615&quot;][ATTACH=full]1054344[/ATTACH]</p><p>I just got back from the 2020 NYINC. So I did about a 4 hours walk around the show and a little bit over half an hour at a interesting lecture concerning Countermarks on Byzantine coins.</p><p>Purchased 2 simple Ancients and 2 Foreign (The foreign I will show in another thread to separate from the ancients)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1054343[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>First simple Ancient purchase -</p><p>Roman Empire</p><p>House of Constantine</p><p>Constantiniam AD 330-340</p><p>Roma/She-wolf &amp; Twins (Romulus &amp; Remus)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1054349[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054351[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054350[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Second simple Ancient purchase -</p><p>Gordian III</p><p>Rome 238 AD (Plated)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1054352[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054353[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1054354[/ATTACH]</p><p>So this coin had an interesting story. I asked the seller Dirk Drijver from Agora-Ancient coins of the Netherlands about the significance of it being plated. He stated that these types of coins were considered either real or counterfeit. Most likely they were struck in bronze then plated with silver due to a shortage of silver. The idea was to put them into circulation and make the people believe they were actually silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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