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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 3013293, member: 75496&quot;][ATTACH=full]747597[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Judaea, Herod IV Philip, with Augustus, Æ20. Caesarea Philippi (Panias), dated RY 12 of Herod Philip (8/9 CE). Laureate head right; countermark: star(?) / Tetrastyle temple (the Augusteum of Panias); L I B (date) between columns. Meshorer 97; Hendin 1221; RPC I 4940. 8.88g, 20mm.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Meshorer speculates on the aforementioned &quot;riddle&quot; of countermarks (by Ryro), as they appear on Phillip&#039;s coins.&nbsp; He notes that a relatively large number of these coins were restruck with countermarks, most commonly with a star-shape (as above?) or with the Greek letter phi.&nbsp; They are only found on early coins, up to his 19th regnal year (15/16 CE), likely added between 15 and 27 CE, a period when Philip did not mint coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Meshorer&#039;s hypothesis is that these countermarks on existing coins came in place of minting new ones during that time.&nbsp; Philip issued coins again in the latter part of his reign which ended with his death in 34 CE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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