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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8406536, member: 85693&quot;]Maybe I found it?&nbsp; RPC has a countermark database that I am not especially good at navigating, but I found a laurel in an oval countermark found on Antioch AEs: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark/499" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark/499" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark/499</a></p><p><br /></p><p>That No. 2 example sure looks a lot like yours.&nbsp; The RPC number is 499, and the all-important Howgego GIC number is 379.&nbsp; It took me a while to figurer out &quot;GIC&quot; is the same as the Howgego number (I&#039;m slow on the uptake).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the whole database starting from page I (of 26!): </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can get a general idea of scarcity from the number of examples in RPC (and Howgego).&nbsp; That laurel in an oval countermark you have is rather scarce (3 examples in RPC).&nbsp; The laurel in a rectangle is far more common (52 examples in RPC); here is my rectangle:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1491273[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Trajan/Hadrian&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 27</b></p><p><b>(c. 102-114 A.D. / cm see note)</b></p><p><b>Syria, Seleucis &amp; Pieria Antiochia ad Orontem&nbsp; </b></p><p>[ΑΥΤΟΚΡ] ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑ[ΝΟϹ] ϹΕΒ[ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚ] laureate head left / SC within</p><p>laurel wreath, BI below.</p><p>RPC III, 3595; McAlee 487(m).</p><p>(12.98 grams / 27 x 25 mm)</p><p>eBay Nov. 2020&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><b>Countermark Notes: </b>Laurel branch incuse in 5 x 4 mm rectangle, Howgego 378.</p><p>According to Howgego, the laurel branch countermark appears as an undertype on a Bar Kochba bronze, indicating that it was applied prior to 132-135 AD.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=930871" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=930871" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=930871</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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