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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2304964, member: 19463&quot;]I suspect each of our specialties have these same three groupings of which most people can appreciate only the first.&nbsp; I know the Flavians in Most Fun have parallels in Eastern Septimius coins which Martin and I show here to the regular boredom of most.&nbsp; The new category here is Coolest which will fly over the heads of most of us even after reading the excellent explanation.&nbsp; I can see the coin but no letters on the c/m penetrate my skull. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do find it interesting that many countermarks were applied with some sort of pattern.&nbsp; I&#039;ll show again my countermark of the bull of Ba&#039;al on a stater of Aspendos just to assist those of you in basic Aramaic.&nbsp; Note my three letters match the first three letters reading up the right side of the mot beautiful coin.&nbsp; Do remember that Aramaic is written right to left so the B’LTRZ is actually ZRTL&#039;B making the LUY read YUL.&nbsp; I have two coins with this bull c/m. Both are placed over the dotted border of their host coin on but not over the edge. Both are made less clear by the noise of the dotted border.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t easy being a countermark.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]463519[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]463520[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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