Cycladic Islands Andros 3RD-2nd Cen BC Dionysos / A-N / D-R Around Thyrsus

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louisvillekyshop CCF Advertiser United States 1303 Posts	Posted 07/11/2022 01:23 am I don't think anyone will find this coin example with the bust in this direction and the incuse countermark so I post it here for internet memory. I found one on acsearch and another on wildwinds but the bust is in the other direction. CYCLADIC ISLANDS ANDROS 3rd-2nd century BC Youthful head of Dionysos crowned with ivy. Rev. Α-Ν/D-R in Greek around a Thyrsus, orned with taenia. SNG Cop. 614. (18 mm, 3.17 grams) Edited by louisvillekyshop 07/11/2022 01:25 am Report this Post to the Staff

Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 07/11/2022 07:27 am The coin may have made its way to (relatively close) Aegina. The countermark seems to be a skew pattern, like #13 from this diagram of Aegina C/M's. http://numismatics.org/digitallibra...95/nnan38166 Report this Post to the Staff
louisvillekyshop CCF Advertiser United States 1303 Posts	Posted 07/11/2022 10:36 am Bob; I knew I had seen that counter-mark before, it is on the back of the Aegina Turtle stater. In fact that must be why I wrote "incuse" counter-mark as my mind went to incuse. Wonderful link and since there are various theories in that document you sent I suppose it is easy enough to think an Aegina banker marked some foreign coins for utilization locally? Thanks again Bob! Report this Post to the Staff
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