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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8398563, member: 85693&quot;]Digging up this thread because I got another Minerva countermark for Antioch by Domitian.&nbsp; This one is on a Titus host, which appears to be scarce; at least I was unable to find another one.&nbsp; RPC has (63) examples of this countermark on hosts from Claudius to Domitian, but none on a Titus.&nbsp; Wildwinds, acsearch, etc. didn&#039;t turn up any either.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first of the &quot;large&quot; SC types that I have with this countermark; the other two posted above are the small types (as and semis?).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here it is: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1490152[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Titus / Domitian Æ 28</b></p><p><b>(c. 79-81 A.D. / cm 83-96 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Syria, Seleucis &amp; Pieria Antiochia ad Orontem </b></p><p>T CAESAR IMP PON[T] (first T faint, located at 6 o&#039;clock), laureate head right / Large S•C, laurel wreath around, pellet top. </p><p>RPC II 2014; McAlee 384(b/c?); BMC 235; Wruck 102. </p><p>(13.63 grams / 28 x 27 mm)</p><p>eBay June 2022&nbsp; </p><p><b>Countermark:&nbsp; </b>Athena/Minerva in 6 x 4 mm rectangle, Howgego 245; RPC 368. (none on Titus in RPC from (63) examples).</p><p>&quot;The connection of Minerva with Domitian suggests that this is an Imperial countermark.&nbsp; There can be little doubt that it was applied at Antioch between 83 and 96 A.D.&nbsp; It did not have a denominational significance because it occurs on</p><p>both denominations of the SC series&quot;&nbsp; Howgego</p><p><b>Scarcity: </b> RPC has (63) examples of Countermark 368, all for Antioch SC issues, but none on a Titus host coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine appears to have an obverse die-match to one of the RPC examples:&nbsp; </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1490151[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Die-Match:</b> Obverse die appears to match this</p><p>specimen from RPC: Coin no. 5 of RPC II 2014; Bibliothèque nationale de France,</p><p>Paris (France) Inventory No. 1973/99</p><p><br /></p><p>For anybody interested in these countermarks, since the last time I posted one of these, I finally figured out how to negotiate RPC&#039;s countermark database.&nbsp; Here are three pages worth of the Athena/Minerva type in this thread (RPC says it is Athena; a search for Minerva brings up nothing - the RPC database is touchy this way): <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark/368" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark/368" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark/368</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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