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grbs-15533	Woods, David	The Byzantine Eagle Countermark: Creating a Pseudo-Consular Coinage under the Heraclii?	2015	19	.pdf	application/pdf	6410	207	54	Thirdly, the suggestion that Nicetas authorized the use of the eagle countermark may help explain the rather late date by which his new military mint at Alexandria seems to have begun striking coins, only in indiction 14 beginning September 610, late, that is, if, as seems likely, he had completed his conquest of most of Egypt by the spring of 610.33 The countermarking of coins may have begun in summer 610 as the prelude to the striking of the new consular coinage, and in that sense, as a temporary expedient before the striking of new coins in the names of the two Heraclii as consuls, the coins bearing the eagle countermark may be described as pseudo-consular coins. Reverse, eagle countermark	cache/grbs-15533.pdf	txt/grbs-15533.txt