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Stater Countermarked
| Issuer | Aspendos |
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| Year | 380 BC - 325 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Aspendos |
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Aspendos in Pamphylia operated with unusual monetary autonomy for a city under shifting Achaemenid influence, and its staters circulated widely enough to attract countermarks from multiple issuing authorities across Asia Minor. The countermarks on this type were applied deliberately — not as defacement but as validation, guaranteeing the coin's weight and silver content for use in a new commercial or military context. Persian satrapies and mercenary paymasters both had practical reasons to authenticate foreign silver rather than remint it.
SNG France 84 places this within the well-documented but typologically complex Aspendian series, where die linkage studies have revealed a surprisingly small number of obverse dies for the volume of surviving specimens.