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JOSE LUIS F

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countemark trajan
« on: May 01, 2023, 02:39:57 am »
countermark in trajan? to whom it corresponds and the reason.
sesterce trajan
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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2023, 03:12:18 am »
Howgego 294. Noted on 23 Trajanic sestertii.

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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2023, 08:26:09 am »
WHAT DOES THIS COUNTERMARK MEAN? IN THE SHAPE OF A CUP
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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2023, 09:06:09 am »

Howgego says "Bucranium" (= bulls head), that points maybe to Legion III Gallica.

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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2023, 09:16:18 pm »
While Howgego says bucranium, it is not actually an ox skull as it still has ears.

So more of an ox's head or bull's head.

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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2023, 10:35:25 pm »
Just to be clear, this is not a cup. This bull's head looks very similar to the bull's head on the Kings of Paphlagonia coin I just posted today (mine is not a countermark). Not an unusual look for a bull's head, you just don't see that many that don't have their body involved in some way (that I have seen) or that are frontal views like this. Interesting. Where was this one minted?

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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2023, 01:02:20 am »

The undertype coin is Imperial sestertius from Rome mint.

Howgego: "The 6 western finds are an indication of the movement of coin by troops
returning from east after the Partian war and do not imply that the countermark
was western."

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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2023, 12:31:46 pm »
VOY A PONER REVERSO Y ANVERSO.
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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2023, 12:39:58 pm »
he ampliado la cabeza de buey o toro
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Re: countemark trajan
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2023, 01:02:24 pm »

Oh, this is coin of SC- series minted in Rome for use in Syria.

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