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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3902110, member: 85693"]Nice coins (and dog). Pretty much all my Greek coins are modest!</p><p><br /></p><p>I particularly like that Antigonas Gonatas as it has a countermark on the obverse. After a quickie search online I found a Vcoins listing for a similar one for sale by Marc Breitsprecher:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.vcoins.com/de/stores/marc_breitsprecher_classical_numismatist/8/product/kings_of_macedon__antigonos_ii_gonatas_19819__horseman/618864/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/de/stores/marc_breitsprecher_classical_numismatist/8/product/kings_of_macedon__antigonos_ii_gonatas_19819__horseman/618864/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcoins.com/de/stores/marc_breitsprecher_classical_numismatist/8/product/kings_of_macedon__antigonos_ii_gonatas_19819__horseman/618864/Default.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>For reasons unknown to me, coins of Antigonas Gonatas were extensively countermarked. The ones I mostly see are on the Pan-erecting-trophy type and consist of a cavalry (?) helmet - as with yours, the countermark is always (at least that I've seen) applied neatly on the head of the obverse figure so as not to obliterate the face:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1028448[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3902110, member: 85693"]Nice coins (and dog). Pretty much all my Greek coins are modest! I particularly like that Antigonas Gonatas as it has a countermark on the obverse. After a quickie search online I found a Vcoins listing for a similar one for sale by Marc Breitsprecher: [URL]https://www.vcoins.com/de/stores/marc_breitsprecher_classical_numismatist/8/product/kings_of_macedon__antigonos_ii_gonatas_19819__horseman/618864/Default.aspx[/URL] For reasons unknown to me, coins of Antigonas Gonatas were extensively countermarked. The ones I mostly see are on the Pan-erecting-trophy type and consist of a cavalry (?) helmet - as with yours, the countermark is always (at least that I've seen) applied neatly on the head of the obverse figure so as not to obliterate the face: [ATTACH=full]1028448[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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