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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1679652, member: 42773&quot;]Counterstamps were occasionally used in antiquity to claim and/or monetize the coins of another nation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Seleucid anchor counterstamp on an Alexander III tetradrachm, ca. 202-201 BC...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s10.postimg.org/t6fol7dih/counter1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>When the Carthiginians destroyed Akragas, they counterstamped the regional coinage with the head of Herakles, ca. 405-392 BC...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s22.postimg.org/bxoiph1qp/counter2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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