originally produced while in circulation. This practice is now obsolete. Countermarking can be done for a variety of reasons. If the currency is reformed, existing...
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April 2014 at the Wayback Machine Discussion on the meaning of the "VAR" countermark Arminius / Varus. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest – Internet-Portal...
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where a new design is struck over an existing coin Chop marks on coins Countermark Counterfeit Nandipada History - Our Past I (November 22 ed.). New Delhi:...
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account of the Roman legionaries' later burial. Coins minted with the countermark VAR, distributed by Varus, also support the identification of the site...
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Coin of Tanlis Mardates, with a round countermark on the profile of Rangodeme, representing a portrait with (ΤΑΝΛΙC ....) around....
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Overstrike (numismatics) — where a new design is struck over an existing coin Countermark Counterfeit Punch-marked coins Money portal Numismatics portal C.J. Gullberg...
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of Abd Allah ibn Khazim with AH 69 (688 CE) date. In the margin: a Hephthalite countermark with crowned facing head and a late tamgha . Circa 700 CE....
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Nero, Sestertius with countermark "X" of Legio X Gemina. Obv: Laureate bust right. Rev: Nero riding horse right, holding spear, DECVRSIO in exergue; S...
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S. Qedar, "A Countermark of the Legio Quinta Scytica from the Jewish War", INJ 13 (1994–1999), pp. 66–69. S. Gerson, "A New Countermark of the Fifth Legion"...
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Regent Morton revalued copper or base "black money" coinage, using a countermark of a heart, some at three times its face value, and used this to pay...
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Allah ibn Khazim with AH 69 (688 CE) date. In the margin: a Hephthalite countermark with crowned facing head and a late tamgha . Time of Nezak Tarkhan, circa...
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Czechoslovakia, 1920: Inverted 28Kc airmail overprint Precancel Specimen stamp Countermark, an equivalent to an overprint found on coins Where's George, U.S. Currency...
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see Basic Electrum Types. Some lion coins are completely covered by countermarks, in some cases more than ten. These marks were probably applied by moneychangers...
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More often seen on large gold or silver coins. banker's mark A small countermark applied to a coin by a bank or a trader indicating that they consider...
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"Happiness, Cheerfulness and Joy". Paunov, Evgeni I. (5 May 2014). "A Roman countermark on a bronze coin of Rhoemetalces I, King of Thrace". "Laetitia"....
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Edward VI 3rd periond shillings which were terribly debased. Denoted by a countermark of a seated greyhound on the obverse. Threepence 3d £0.0125 silver 1551–1945...
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countermark that went unrecorded is apparently from 52/53 CE and the Greek letters in it do not support a date of 9/8 BCE, as the other countermarks....
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folus" is minted in Persian. Old copper coins were released anew with the countermarks folus-i shahi, 'adl-e shahi, etc. that showed their new value. Tahmasp...
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Sasanian king Khusro II dating from year 37 of his reign (= 626/7). The two countermarks on Khusro 's drachm prove that the urn could only have been deposited...
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Allah ibn Khazim with AH 69 (688 CE) date. In the margin: a Hephthalite countermark with crowned facing head and a late Hephthalite tamgha . Circa 700 CE...
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portal Numismatics portal Punch-marked coins Planchet Chop marks on coins Countermark Counterfeit O.Mørkholm, 1991 C.M.Hogan, 2008 M.Crawford, 1983 Richard...
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display more variation and were produced in gold, silver and bronze. Countermarks are sometimes seen on these coins, either stamped by the company or by...
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century subject to countermarking, a measure designed to keep genuine, high-quality coins in use, but which were all ended as the countermarks could also be...
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Another coin of Khusrau II with round countermark "ζολαδο" "Zolado" for Zhulād of Gōzgān (upper right corner, in the margin)....
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Females prefer to mate with males whose scent is familiar. Males will also countermark—mark over or adjacent to another individual's mark deposited earlier—to...
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The ewer is the symbol of the Worshipful Company of Founders and was used for countermarking bullion weights in the reign of William III and after 1772....
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Spanish colonial coin and macuquina circulated, mostly Peruvian. The 1832 countermark was intended solely for coin minted at Bogotá (Cundinamarca) between...
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Sasanian king Khusro II dating from year 37 of his reign (= 626/7). The two countermarks on Khusro 's drachm prove that the urn could only have been deposited...
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English design. The Bank had attempted to circulate the dollars by countermarking the coins on the side showing the Spanish king with a small image of...
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