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Who/What is "M" in Howgego Greek Imperial Countermarks ?
« on: September 20, 2017, 09:32:08 pm »
I find it really annoying when authors use abbreviations and do not include them in the list of abbreviations they add. Some are obvious, such as ANS, BMC, Cop, but often an author omits to add an abbreviation to a list.
A case in point is shown on countermarks nos. 640 and 641 in Chris Howgego's "Greek Imperial Countermarks": 640 gives "M 21" as source, 641 gives "M 39" as source. 641 is the one I am interested in.
But looking in the key to the abbreviations at the back of the book shows no abbreviation "M". It's not Munich (in the list as SNG..."), not Mionnet (in the list as "Mionnet.."), not Mabbott, McClean, MacDowall, Moushmov, Mauromichale, or anything else I can think of.

Almost every other source in the book is written in some understandable form, even without having to refer to the abbreviations key - but not this mysterious "M".
Does anyone know to what or to whom Chris Howgego is referring ?

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Re: Who/What is "M" in Howgego Greek Imperial Countermarks ?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2017, 10:00:22 pm »
On page 102 he explains that M is Munich, the Staatliche Muenzsammlung.

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Re: Who/What is "M" in Howgego Greek Imperial Countermarks ?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2017, 05:37:04 am »
Thanks Ed,
I had given up looking through the pages and all the footnotes when I reached page 99. I should have persevered for three more pages !

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Re: Who/What is "M" in Howgego Greek Imperial Countermarks ?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2017, 10:27:19 am »
Howgego also writes that "the accession number of the coin is given after the abbreviation for the collection, from which it is separated by a full stop."

For a museum collection, the accession numbers of those Munich coins, M.21 and M.39, are surprisingly low!
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Re: Who/What is "M" in Howgego Greek Imperial Countermarks ?
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2017, 04:10:42 pm »
What is Mauromichale?  Please add it to NumisWiki
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Re: Who/What is "M" in Howgego Greek Imperial Countermarks ?
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2017, 06:30:11 pm »
It is an amazing collection of (mostly provincial) coins of D. P. Mauromichale compiled by J. Svoronos in JIAN VI and VII (1903). 106 pages including about 20  pages of plates at the end of the volumes. Text in Greek.
Can't add it to Numiswiki, all I get in my wonderful (NOT!!!) Firefox 55 after searching in the left-hand panel is a blank screen with links at the top, no idea where to add the text.

Could someone else add it using a decent browser ?
A link to JIAN VI/VII is here (44 Mb on archive.org).
https://archive.org/download/journalinternati67sboruoft/journalinternati67sboruoft.pdf

so the user would need to extract the articles him/herself and stick them together.

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Re: Who/What is "M" in Howgego Greek Imperial Countermarks ?
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2017, 12:56:02 am »
I added a Mauromichale page. I am not sure it is 100% correct.
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