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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1037331, member: 19463"]A countermark is a design added to a coin separately (usually later) than when the coin was originally made. Sometimes they revalued a coin or certified it for use in another way or even marked it as property of someone. Often we do not know the details. My example here shows a bull in a square countermark with legend naming the god Ba'al. Perhaps the coin was donated or certified for temple use but I really do not know. I did not see a countermark on the bull and will have to ask mat to point it out.</p><p>[ATTACH]101745.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1037331, member: 19463"]A countermark is a design added to a coin separately (usually later) than when the coin was originally made. Sometimes they revalued a coin or certified it for use in another way or even marked it as property of someone. Often we do not know the details. My example here shows a bull in a square countermark with legend naming the god Ba'al. Perhaps the coin was donated or certified for temple use but I really do not know. I did not see a countermark on the bull and will have to ask mat to point it out. [ATTACH]101745.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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