1.2.2.
Countermarks on Lugdunum AEs of Augustus
and Tiberius as Caesar Part 2:
Countermarks covered in this
section are:
"TCPA", "TIB round", "TIB square",
"TIBCAVF", "TIBIM",
"VAR" (and "Q VAR"), "VICIN", large "Wheel".
See also The Varus Debate: and make up your mind if "VAR" stands for Varus or maybe rather not....
"TCPA"
on Lugdunum As, maybe for TIBERIUS
CAESAR PERMISSU AUGUSTI (countermarkMartini
Pangerl
Collection 28)
"TIB round"
round type on Lugdunum As (countermarkMartini
Pangerl Collection 29)
"TIB Square"
in square form, on Lugdunum
II As, Germania Inferior (Noviomagus ?) (countermark Martini
Pangerl Collection 50)
"TIBCAVF"
in square possibly on a Lugdunum
As, meaning thought to be "Tiberius Caesar Augustus Filius",
(countermark Martini
Pangerl Collection 32)
"TIB IM"
on Lugdunum II As of Tiberius,
possibly Germania superior or Gallia (countermark large = Martini
Pangerl Collection 57, small = MPC
33)
"VAR": (countermark Martini Pangerl Collection 52); See also The Varus Debate:
"VAR (in ligature)" on Lugdunum type I AEs
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Details of "VAR in ligature" countermark
another example
on a Lugdunum As "VAR"
in
mirror writing
another "VAR" in mirror another "VAR" on Lugdunum
two more
Rare Variety of "VAR" countermark
on Lugdunum I
As (Asciburgum type)
Rare Variety of "VAR"
"VAR" on a moneyer
As, a rare occurrance
another one, combined with "AVC"
"VAR" and "C VAL"
The search for the Varus countermark, or how to turn worn and
corroded
ancient coins into hard modern currency:
Below one of many coins offered as Varus countermarks to the innocent
collector. This one is really a common IMP in ligature on a Nemausus
coin
(on the head of Augustus, stamped on where his ear had been). You can
see
part of the M melted into the P.
"VAR" imitation
on an unidentifiable coin
from the balkans (?), could be either a local imitation of this western
European countermark, or possible a variation of the Syrian "QVAR"
?
Please note the slightly different ligature, shape and size of the
countermark
"QVAR"
So called "Varus countermarks" are reported from Varus' time as
governor
in Syria (on provinical coins only)
"VICIN"
on Lugdunum I As of Augustus, Gallia
(countermark Martini
Pangerl Collection 36)
"Large Wheel": (countermark Martini Pangerl Collection 38)
"large Wheel" with 9 lines
and a dot on obverse,
"VAR"
on
reverse
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"VAR" and "large Wheel" (with
9 lines, sometimes with dot, maybe a degeneration of the "CCARN"
countermark
?)