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Three are some great coins in the thread. While I don't have any coins with great countermarks, I do have a rough Pi-style Athens tet from 353-340 BC with a banker's mark on the cheek of Athena

 

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Grapes and dolphin.


Dolphin and a head, reverse is dreadful.


Trident and helmet, possibly Corinthian


Bee


Fern or palm on the reverse, I keep meaning to lighten these images.

 

Just bought this one today. I still want a better turtle but the price was right on this one.

 

Posting error

 

Posting error

 

These are Bankers Marks, but how about an Owl and a Goddess BRUTALIZED?

5 marks, maybe 6...

Athens Owl 16.8g 22x6-5mm

 

Not sure whether this is a mark or a ding, atop my land turtle.

 

Not sure either @Pishpash.

On my turtle there is a distinctive marking

 

Great counter marks all
i like countermarks/ because the history how they use it

Emperor period:AUGUSTUS.
Year:27 BC-14 AD.

munt:Æ Sestertius
gewicht; 33 mm , 21,8 g

City:Rome mint.
Struck 16 BC.

OB Ti. Sempronius Graccus, moneyer.
REV: Legend in three lines within oak-wreath flanked by two laurel branches

Large S C; countermarks: radiate head right and Lunar goddess(?) standing left.

Helios
Early Augustan Sestertius: Radiate head of Helios r.; std. lunar deity with crescent above head
Also referred to as a 'nailed helmet'. Sometimes this 'radiate' head is found struck twice on examples of Augustan sestertii and, occasionally, it is found paired with this standing lunar diety. This latter type should make the 'Helios' designation of the other countermark a certainty. Countermark Martini Pangerl Collection 65.

 

Augustus As

Obv:– CAESAR PONT MAX, Laureate bust right. “CCARN" in circle in countermark.
Rev:– ROM ET AVG; Front elevation of the Altar in Lyon, decorated with the corona civica between laurels, these being made by nude male figures, usually stylized, to left and right, Victories on columns facing one another.
Minted in Lugdunum. B.C. 15 to B.C. 10.
Ref:– BMC 550. RIC I Augustus 230

 

Martin, I don't understand what this means. Augustus was Caesar under... himself?

 

Neither do I. It was a cut and paste error.

 

Oh. Phew! I thought I was misunderstanding something basic (not an unheard of phenomenon for me, unfortunately ).

 

dear friends,

i you want you can add also you cm at FORVM
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=546

 

Cool CM's everyone. My only one.

 

i'm inclined to believe the 1st siglo has countermarks on it, but i'm not 100% sure. and now it looks like rust on it?!? surely not..

 

Hadrian AS Roma 134-38 AD Africa OSTROGOTHS. Uncertain king. Follis circa VI cent.
Reference. very rare
RIC 841; C 147. BMC 1714. MEC I, 66 for countermark.

Obv. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P
Laureate and draped bust right; in front XLII.

Rev. AFRICA
Africa reclining left, wearing elephant-trunk, holding scorpion and cornucopia; in front, basket of corn.

12.22 gr
26 mm
6h

 

very nice envy
and welcome here

 

comes with delay

 

yes welcome to the dark side, i like your name, you must have kinfolk here