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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 8143088, member: 57495&quot;]Cool coins and great thread, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER].&nbsp; I especially like the double bee. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t usually go out of my way to buy countermarked coins, but a few have crept into my collection anyway.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1419778[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ATTICA, Aegina</b></p><p>AR Stater. 12.12g, 21.1mm. ATTICA, Aegina, circa 480-456 BC. SNG Cop 507.&nbsp; O: Sea turtle; [T shaped pattern of pellets on back]; Countermarks: Corinthian helmet and others.&nbsp; R: Large square incuse with skew pattern.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1419779[/ATTACH]<b>KINGDOM OF LYDIA. Kroisos.</b></p><p>AR Siglos. 5.31g, 19.1mm. LYDIA, Sardes, circa 560-546 BC. Rosen 663; SNG Kayhan 1024-1026. O: Confronted foreparts of a lion and a bull. R: Two incuse squares, one larger than the other; to left, countermark: head wearing crested helmet right.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1419780[/ATTACH]<b>MYSIA, Pergamon</b></p><p>AE20. 8.18g, 20mm. MYSIA, Pergamon, 190-133 BC. BMC 161. O: Laureate head of Asklepios right. R: AΣKΛHΠIOY ΣΩTHPOΣ, Serpent of Asklepios coiled around omphalos; c/m, owl standing. </p><p><br /></p><p>There was this one that I did specifically buy for the countermarked, because I thought it was amusing that the coin had a bust of a young Herakles stamped over one of an old Herakles. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1419782[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>BITHYNIA, Herakleia Pontika</b></p><p>AE19. 4.63g, 19.5mm. BITHYNIA, Herakleia Pontika, circa 235-175 BC. SNG Stancomb 827 = Stancomb, Autonomous p. 21, 7a A4/P10, pl. 3, 35 (<i>this coin</i>); SNG BM Black Sea 1631; HGC 7, 489. O: Bearded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress; c/m: head of young Herakles right. R: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩ-TAN, lion prancing right; boukranion between forelegs, monogram above, club below. </p><p><i>Ex William Stancomb Collection, this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000), and also published in W.M. Stancomb, &#039;The Autonomous Bronze Coinage of Heraclea Pontica&#039; (NC 169, 2009); acquired from William Veres, November 1987.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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