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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 2940271, member: 58462&quot;]<font size="5">Below is copied from Forum Ancient Coins.&nbsp; #79 perhaps?</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Countermarks on Imperial Persian Sigloi</b></font></p><p>Chart of 208 varieties adapted from the format as published by George F. <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hill" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hill" rel="nofollow">Hill</a> in the British Museum Catalog, volume on <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=persia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=persia" rel="nofollow">Persia</a>, p. cxxxvii. First prepared as a chart of 187 varieties and published in the article, &quot;Notes on the Imperial Persian Coinage,&quot; Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1919, 116ff. Reprinted in 1977 by <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Obol" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Obol" rel="nofollow">Obol</a> International as Imperial Persian Coinage.</p><p>In the following illustrations, the areas in black are <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Incuse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Incuse" rel="nofollow">incuse</a>, that is, they descend below the surface of the metal. Design areas in white are to be understood as standing in relief against the surface of the metal which has been depressed around them. Some marks are entirely <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Incuse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Incuse" rel="nofollow">incuse</a>, and a few are in relief against a depression of the metal around them. Most marks consist of a combination of <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Incuse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Incuse" rel="nofollow">incuse</a> and relief design elements.</p><p><br /></p><p>The marks have not been drawn to any common <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Scale" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Scale" rel="nofollow">scale</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image078.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image079.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image080.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image081.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image082.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image083.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image084.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image085.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image086.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image087.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image088.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image089.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image090.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image091.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image092.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image093.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image094.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image095.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image096.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/data/Sigloi_files/image097.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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